Victorian Numbered Acts

GAMBLING REGULATION FURTHER AMENDMENT ACT 2009 (NO. 58 OF 2009) - SECT 105

After section 8.4.7 of the Principal Act insert —

        " 8.4.7A     Payment of prize money and cashing of cheques

    (1)     If a person wins prize money of $1000 or more in a bingo game, the bingo centre operator or a nominee of the community or charitable organisation who is conducting the bingo game must not pay out, or allow another person to pay out, any of that prize money except by cheque that is not payable to cash.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (2)     The bingo centre operator or a nominee of the community or charitable organisation who is conducting the bingo game must, at the request of a person, pay out any prize money from a bingo game to the person by cheque that is not payable to cash.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.".

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