23. In the pursuit of its mission, the board shall exercise functions which include(1) issuing, suspending, cancelling or revoking the permits, licences, authorizations and registration attestations prescribed under any of the Acts coming under the board’s responsibility, subject to the second paragraph of section 34 of the Act respecting lotteries, publicity contests and amusement machines (chapter L-6);
(2) establishing the conditions attached to such permits and licences and monitoring their use;
(3) regulating and supervising horse racing, racehorse breeding and training, the operation of horse racing betting houses and, where so authorized by the Government, any other race;
(4) regulating and supervising publicity contests, amusement machines, video lotteries, State casinos and the lottery schemes operated in those casinos and, where so authorized by the Government, any other lottery schemes not operated by the Société des loteries du Québec;
(5) seeing to the protection and safety of the public during activities governed by the Act respecting racing (chapter C-72.1) or the Act respecting lotteries, publicity contests and amusement machines;
(5.1) regulating professional combat sports, maintaining the good reputation of those sports and ensuring the safety and integrity of participants and spectators;
(6) monitoring advertising and educational programs relating to alcoholic beverages and to activities governed by the Act respecting racing and the Act respecting lotteries, publicity contests and amusement machines.