Gaming Machine Regulation 2002

The licensee must—

care for all gaming machines, and ancillary or related equipment, including, for example, consoles, fibre optic cable, progressive displays and site controllers, on the licensee’s licensed premises, in the way a reasonable, careful and prudent owner would; and

provide, at the licensee’s expense, locks of a type approved by the commissioner to secure the gaming machine cabinet, banknote receptacle, cage housing the receptacle and console door for each gaming machine; and

ensure a key to the locks securing the gaming machine cabinets for all gaming machines is exclusive to the locks; and

ensure a key to the locks securing the banknote receptacles, cages housing the receptacles and console doors for all gaming machines is exclusive to the locks; and

fix gaming machines to consoles in a way approved by the commissioner; and

take all reasonable steps to ensure all gaming machines are—

continuously provided with electricity; and

switched on at all times.

The licensee must carry out, as required, at the licensee’s expense (unless the work is carried out under a licensed major dealer’s warranty), the following works to ensure gaming machines are at all times in a proper state of repair and safe for use—

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

installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of locks of gaming machine cabinets or console doors;

installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of hinges of gaming machine console doors;

adjustment of the device regulating the level of the contents of the hopper;

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

repair by clearing gaming tokens jammed in a gaming machine;

repair by resetting minor fault conditions of a gaming machine;

regular inspection, testing and tagging of electrical equipment of a gaming machine and ancillary or related equipment.

A licensee must not interfere with a connection between a gaming machine and an electronic monitoring system installed by a licensed monitoring operator.