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GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 47A
Prohibition on accepting transfer of prize winning cheques
47A Prohibition on accepting transfer of prize winning cheques
(1) A person (other than a financial institution) must not accept the transfer
of a cheque that the person knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is
a prize winning cheque. : Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.
(2) Without
limiting subsection (1), a person who accepts the transfer of a
prize winning cheque in, or within 500 metres of, a hotel or the
premises of a club is taken to know that the cheque is a prize winning cheque
unless the contrary is proven.
(3) In this section and section 47B--
"prize winning cheque" means a crossed cheque (as referred to in section 53 of
the Cheques Act 1986 of the Commonwealth) that is paid by a hotelier or club
as prize money to a person as a result of the person winning money or
accumulating credits on an approved gaming machine.
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