Gaming Machine Act 1991

This section applies to a licensee or licensed monitoring operator who is required to make a payment for—

an amount for winnings, or gaming machine credits, that is not made by a gaming machine; or

the redemption of gaming tokens.

The licensee or licensed monitoring operator must make the payment—

if paragraph (b) does not apply—with Australian currency; or

if, under a regulation or the ancillary rules, the payment is required to be made in a way prescribed under the regulation or stated in the rules—in the way prescribed or stated.

Subsection (2) does not apply to a licensee or licensed monitoring operator for a payment that, apart from this subsection, would be required to be made with Australian currency if, at the request of the person entitled to receive the payment, the licensee or operator makes the payment by—

gaming tokens (other than Australian currency); or

a cheque; or

a combination of Australian currency, gaming tokens (other than Australian currency) and a cheque.

Nothing in subsection (3) requires a licensee or licensed monitoring operator to make a payment in the way requested by a person.

In this section—ancillary rules, for a payment under this section, means the rules that, under section 237, are required to be displayed on the licensed premises on which the gaming machine to which the payment relates is installed.