Gaming Machines Act 2001

A hotelier or club may apply to the Authority to increase the gaming machine threshold for the hotel or the premises of the club (a threshold increase application).

The hotel or club premises to which a threshold increase application relates is referred to in this Division as the relevant venue.

A threshold increase application must comply with the requirements of this Division and the regulations.

The Authority may approve a threshold increase application only if the Authority is satisfied that the requirements of this Division and the regulations have been complied with in relation to the application.

The Authority must determine a threshold increase application within the time required by the regulations.

If the application is approved, the Authority may increase the gaming machine threshold for the relevant venue in accordance with the Authority’s approval.

Nothing in this Division requires the Authority, if it approves a threshold increase application, to increase the relevant venue’s gaming machine threshold by the number to which the application relates.

Without limiting subsection (1), a threshold increase application may be made by a person in relation to premises that are the subject of an application for a licence under the Liquor Act 2007 that has not yet been granted.