Protection of existing contractual arrangements (hotel lessees)
8 Protection of existing contractual arrangements (hotel lessees)
In this clause—
hotel owner means a person who owns the business conducted under the authority of the hotelier’s licence concerned.
lessee means a person who exercises the authority conferred by a hotelier’s licence under a lease, as in force at the commencement of this clause, with the hotel owner.
If—
poker machine entitlements are allocated in respect of a hotelier’s licence, and
a lessee is exercising the authority conferred by the licence,
the poker machine entitlements are, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be allocated in respect of the lessee and the lessee is, for the duration of the lease, authorised (subject to this Act) to keep approved gaming machines in accordance with any such poker machine entitlements.
If the lessee assigns the lease to another person in accordance with the terms of the lease, the lessee may, in accordance with this Act, transfer any poker machine entitlements held by the lessee to the other person as part of the assignment.
For the purposes of subclause (2), the duration of the contractual arrangements includes any extension of those arrangements that is legally enforceable (such as an option for renewal).
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