Gaming Machine Regulations 1995

These Regulations may be cited as the Gaming Machine Regulations

1995.

advertise means advertising about:

(c) the manufacture, assembly, sale, supply, installation, alteration, obtaining, possession, operation, use, adjustment, maintenance or repair of gaming equipment.

cancelled credit means a payment, by a licensee to a player for gaming machine credits, that is not discharged out of the hopper.

game board means a processor board on which a game EPROM is installed.

game EPROM means any Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory or Programmable Read Only Memory or other computer program storage medium that is:

(a) designed to be, or capable of being, installed on a processor board; and

hopper means the container in a gaming machine from which gaming tokens may be discharged in order to pay for gaming machine credits or winnings.

hopper fill means the placing by a licensee of gaming tokens into a hopper.

jackpot payout means a payment by a licensee to a player for a winning result on a gaming machine:

(a) that does not increase the credit meter of the gaming machine; and

machine identification number means the identification number issued for a gaming machine under section 135(1) of the Act.

manufacturer means a recognised manufacturer or supplier of gaming machines.

monthly money reconciliation means a money reconciliation mentioned in section 141 of the Act.

performance summary, in relation to a period covered by a Gaming Machine Performance Record, means a summary of the following expressed in monetary amounts:

(b) the total of gaming tokens removed during money clearances for the period;

(h) the amount calculated by subtracting from the total of the amounts mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b), the total of the amounts mentioned in paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g).

player means a person who plays a gaming machine.

processor board means an electronic circuit board that is designed to be, or is capable of being, used in a gaming machine.

RAM means Random Access Memory.

short pay correction payout means a payment (other than from the hopper) by a licensee to a player of an amount to which the player is entitled if the hopper fails to discharge that amount.

(i) those premises for which a hotel liquor licence is in force at any particular time; or

(ii) those premises for which a liquor licence that is a prescribed liquor licence for section 24(1)(c) of the Act is in force at any particular time;

(b) Category 2 – those premises for which a club liquor licence is in force at any particular time.

For section 22B of the Act, the aggregate number of gaming machines authorised for use under gaming machine licences in the Territory is restricted to a maximum of 1 659.

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For the purposes of sections 25(14) and 41(5) of the Act, the maximum number prescribed:

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the Director must not grant a gaming machine licence to a club if the effect of the grant would be to increase the number of clubs within the prescribed area that hold gaming machine licences beyond the number of clubs within that area that immediately before the commencement of this regulation held gaming machine licences.

(2) For each 5% of 5845 by which the population of the prescribed area increases, the Director may grant a gaming machine licence to one additional club in the prescribed area.

the prescribed area means the area within a 1.5 km radius of Lot 5244, Town of Darwin.

For the purposes of section 33 of the Act, the prescribed conditions are set out in Schedule 1.

For the purposes of section 58(2) of the Act, the following are prescribed:

(a) the installation of an electronic monitoring system if the installation is by the Director;

(b) the installation of a gaming machine if the gaming machine is to be examined by an inspector before play is allowed on the gaming machine;

(c) installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of those fuses, electric light globes, fluorescent tubes and fluoro starters of a gaming machine that are easily accessible;

(d) installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of hinges of gaming machine drop box doors;

(e) adjustment of the device regulating the level of the contents of the hopper;

(f) installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of external switch covers or glass or perspex panels of a gaming machine;

For the purposes of section 64(1A) of the Act, the matters set out in

Schedule 2 are prescribed.

A basic monitoring service is the reading, storage and use of electronic data from gaming machines on licensed premises to provide the information, services and support specified in Schedule 6 in relation to the gaming machines.

For the purposes of section 69 of the Act, the prescribed conditions of a monitoring provider's licence are set out in Schedule 3.

where:

is the amount prescribed by this regulation immediately before the review date;

is the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Darwin for the quarter ending on 30 September that is 3 months before the review date; and

is the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Darwin for the quarter ending on 30 September that is 15 months before the review date.

GST has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act of the Commonwealth.

review date means 1 January in each year, beginning with 1 January 2003.

supply has the same meaning as in the A New Tax

System (Goods and Services Tax) Act of the Commonwealth.