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GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 3.6.3

Health benefit levy

S. 3.6.3(1) amended by Nos 92/2005 s. 8(1), 22/2007 s. 12(1).

    (1)     A gaming operator must pay to the Commission for payment into the Consolidated Fund each financial year a health benefit levy calculated in accordance with the following formula—

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where—

    L     is the levy payable by the gaming operator;

    GM     is the sum of the number of gaming machines of the gaming operator that are operating at an approved venue on the first Saturday in each month from and including December in the preceding financial year to and including November in the financial year.

    (2)     For the purpose of subsection (1), a gaming machine is taken to be operating at an approved venue on the first Saturday in a month if, at any time on that day, the machine—

        (a)     is available for gaming at the approved venue; or

        (b)     would be available for gaming at the approved venue if the machine were connected to the electronic monitoring system.

    (3)     The Treasurer, in consultation with the Commission, is to determine the amount of the levy on each gaming operator for a financial year and must notify each gaming operator of his or her determination as soon as practicable after the first Saturday in November in that year.

    (4)     The levy is payable in two equal instalments each financial year, due on 15 December and 15 June.

S. 3.6.3(5) inserted by No. 92/2005 s. 8(2), substituted by No. 22/2007 s. 12(2).

    (5)     Subsection (1) as amended by section 12(1) of the State Taxation and Gambling Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Act 2007 applies to the health benefit levy for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2007 and each subsequent financial year.

S. 3.6.3(6) inserted by No. 32/2012 s. 10.

    (6)     This section is subject to section 3.6.3A.

S. 3.6.3A inserted by No. 32/2012 s. 11.



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