New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CASINO CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 70A

70A Advertising in relation to gaming machines

(1) It is condition of a casino licence that the casino operator must not publish any advertisement relating to gaming machines or cause or permit any such advertisement to be published.

(2) The condition under subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the casino licence until 6 months after this section commences.

(3) It is a condition of a casino licence that the casino operator must not, after the commencement of this section, enter into or extend the duration of any contract or arrangement for the publication of any advertisement relating to gaming machines. Any such contract or arrangement entered into or extended after the commencement of this section has no effect.

(4) Regardless of any other provision of this section, any contract or arrangement for the publication of any advertisement relating to gaming machines that was entered into before the commencement of this section ceases to have effect 6 months after that commencement.

(5) In this section--

"advertisement relating to gaming machines" means any advertisement that gives publicity to, or otherwise promotes or is intended to promote, the playing of gaming machines in the casino, but does not include an advertisement that is exempted from the operation of this section by the regulations.

"publish" includes disseminate in any way, whether by oral, visual, written or other means (for example dissemination by means of cinema, video, radio, electronics, the Internet or television or by means of promotional material, brochures or flyers).