Victorian Current Acts

GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 3.4A.11I

    (1)     This section applies if an assignment agreement is registered under section 3.4A.11H.

    (2)     On the applicable day under subsection (3), each gaming machine entitlement specified in the agreement is assigned, in accordance with this section, to the assignee—

        (a)     for the period specified in the agreement; and

        (b)     subject to—

              (i)     this Division; and

              (ii)     the gaming machine entitlement assignment rules; and

              (iii)     the agreement.

    (3)     The applicable day is—

        (a)     if the agreement specifies a day on which the gaming machine entitlements are to be assigned, and that day is after the day on which the agreement is registered, the specified day; or

        (b)     otherwise, the day on which the agreement is registered.

    (4)     For the duration of the assignment of a gaming machine entitlement—

        (a)     except as set out in subsections (5) and (6), the assignee (and not the assignor) is taken to be the holder of the entitlement; and

        (b)     without limiting paragraph (a), the entitlement authorises the assignee (and not the assignor) to conduct gaming under the entitlement.

    (5)     Despite subsection (4)(a), the assignor (and not the assignee) is taken to be the holder of an assigned gaming machine entitlement for the purposes of—

        (a)     section 3.4.13(2)(g); and

        (b)     section 3.4.28AB(2); and

        (c)     the liability for, or payment of, an amount or amounts in relation to the entitlement as determined under section 3.4A.5(9) in accordance with an entitlement-related agreement; and

        (d)     Division 5; and

        (e)     Division 5AA; and

        (f)     Division 5A; and

        (g)     section 3.4A.26A; and

        (h)     Division 8A.

    (6)     Despite subsection (4)(a), each of the assignor and the assignee is taken to be the holder of an assigned gaming machine entitlement for the purposes of—

        (a)     the definition of entitlement holder in  section 1.3(1) ; and

        (b)     section 3.2A.7; and

        (c)     Division 4; and

        (d)     sections 3.4.28C and 3.4.28D; and

        (e)     section 3.4A.14A; and

        (f)     the definition of gaming machine services provider in section 9A.1.1; and

        (g)     any conditions of a venue operator's licence that are expressed to apply in relation to a gaming machine entitlement held by a venue operator.

    (7)     For the duration of the assignment of a gaming machine entitlement, the assignor is not taken to be permitting or allowing the conduct of gaming under the entitlement.

S. 3.4A.11J inserted by No. 62/2017 s. 36.