Gaming Machines Act 2001

The SIA threshold for a venue immediately before the relevant date is, as at that date, taken to be the gaming machine threshold for the venue.

Except as provided by subclause (3), the amendments made by the amending Act do not affect the operation of any SIA that was approved before the relevant date and had effect immediately before that date.

If, before the relevant date, the SIA threshold for a venue was not decreased as a result of the transfer of poker machine entitlements from the venue in accordance with Division 2 of Part 3, the Authority is, on the second anniversary of the relevant date, to decrease the gaming machine threshold for the venue by a number that is equal to so much of the unused portion of the venue’s SIA threshold as was not decreased as the result of the transfer.

Any SIA that was provided to the Board or the Authority in accordance with this Act before the relevant date, but not determined by that date, is to be assessed by the Authority, and otherwise be dealt with, as if it were a local impact assessment accompanying a gaming machine threshold application under Division 1 of Part 4 (as inserted by the amending Act).

For the purposes of facilitating the operation of any SIA as referred to in subclause (2), permits may, in the case of a hotel to which any such SIA applies, be acquired by the hotelier, in addition to the acquisition of gaming machine entitlements, to fill any quota set by the regulations (as in force immediately before the relevant date) in relation to the SIA.

This clause is subject to the regulations.

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