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GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 3.5.15

Installation and storage of gaming machines

S. 3.5.15(1) repealed by No. 28/2022 s. 40(a).

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S. 3.5.15(1A) inserted by No. 29/2009 s. 27(10).

    (1A)     An entitlement holder—

        (a)     must install a gaming machine to be used in the conduct of gaming under a gaming machine entitlement, or cause the machine to be installed, in a gaming machine area approved for that purpose by the Commission; and

        (b)     must cause any gaming machines not so installed to be stored in a room approved by the Commission and secured in the manner approved by the Commission.

S. 3.5.15(1B) inserted by No. 62/2017 s. 49(20).

    (1B)     To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (1A)(a) to a gaming machine area does not include a reference to a gaming machine area in a venue whose approval under Part 3 is suspended.

S. 3.5.15(1C) inserted by No. 62/2017 s. 48.

    (1C)     Subsection (1A) does not apply to an entitlement holder in relation to the conduct of gaming under a gaming machine entitlement that the entitlement holder has assigned to another venue operator.

S. 3.5.15(2) amended by Nos 29/2009 s. 27(11), 58/2009 s. 131(1), 62/2017 s. 49(21), 28/2022 s. 40(b).

    (2)     An entitlement holder who installs gaming equipment or monitoring equipment, or causes gaming equipment or monitoring equipment to be installed, at an approved venue (or at a venue whose approval under Part 3 is suspended) must give notice to the Commission of—

S. 3.5.15(2)(a) amended by No. 58/2009 s. 131(2).

        (a)     particulars of the gaming equipment or monitoring equipment; and

        (b)     the date and time of commencement of gaming on the gaming equipment

not later than the next day on which the Commission is open for business after that commencement.

Penalty:     100 penalty units.

    (3)     A notice under subsection (2) must be in a form approved by the Commission.

    (4)     This section does not apply to the installation or storage of a gaming machine in a casino.

S. 3.5.16 (Heading) substituted by No. 4/2014 s. 30.



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