Publicity for prizewinners
50 Publicity for prizewinners
A hotelier, registered club or licensee, or an employee of a hotelier, registered club or licensee, must not publish or cause to be published anything which identifies any person who—
wins a prize of more than $1,000 in value from playing an approved gaming machine in a hotel or on the premises of a registered club, and
when claiming the prize, requests in writing to the hotelier, club or licensee, or to an employee of the hotelier, club or licensee, that anything disclosing the person’s identity not be published.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
Note.
Publishing the identity of a prizewinner (regardless of whether the publication complies with this clause) is gaming machine advertising for the purposes of section 43 of the Act, and accordingly the publication cannot be seen or heard otherwise than inside the venue concerned.
A person who makes a request referred to in subclause (1)(b) may at any time revoke the request.
Subclause (1) does not apply to—
a request that has been revoked by the prizewinner concerned, or
the publication, inside the venue where the prize is won, of information—
relating to the type or value of the prize won, and
that identifies the venue, or geographic location of the venue, where it was won.
In this clause—
licensee means the holder of a links licence or investment licence.
publish includes disseminate in any way, whether by oral, visual, written or other means (for example, dissemination by means of cinema, video, radio, electronics, the internet or television).
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