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GAMBLING REGULATIONS 2015 - REG 19

Gaming machines to display time of day

    (1)     A venue operator or casino operator who knows or who could reasonably be expected to know that a gaming machine is not able to display the time of day in accordance with this regulation must not permit gaming on the gaming machine.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     The time of day is displayed on a gaming machine in accordance with this regulation if the time of day—

        (a)     is displayed—

              (i)     on the video screen; or

              (ii)     on a device attached to the gaming machine in a position that is acceptable under subregulation (3); and

        (b)     is clearly visible to a person playing the gaming machine; and

        (c)     is accurate to within 5 minutes; and

        (d)     indicates whether the hour is before or after noon; and

        (e)     is displayed continuously; and

        (f)     does not obscure any other information relevant to gaming on gaming machines.

    (3)     For the purposes of subregulation (2)(a), a position on a gaming machine is acceptable if it is—

        (a)     either—

              (i)     in front of the machine cabinet; or

              (ii)     within 10 centimetres of the left or right edge of the machine cabinet; and

        (b)     not higher than—

              (i)     if the gaming machine has a top box—5 centimetres above the bottom of the top box; or

              (ii)     if the gaming machine does not have a top box—the top of the machine cabinet; and

        (c)     not lower than the bottom of the button panel.

    (4)     In this regulation, a reference to a "button panel", top box or video screen of a gaming machine is a reference to the part of the gaming machine that corresponds to the similarly labelled part of a gaming machine represented in Schedule 2.



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