Permits to conduct bingo; who may play permitted bingo
95 Permits to conduct bingo; who may play permitted bingo
Where the Commission is satisfied that it is not to be conducted for the purposes of private gain or any commercial undertaking, a permit authorising the conduct of bingo may be issued —
to have effect for a period of 6 months from the date of issue, without specifying the dates on which play may take place, where the bingo is conducted by or on behalf of an approved bingo club; or
as a permit of a continuing nature, subject to the condition that play takes place on the days and at the times authorised by that permit and not otherwise; or
as a function permit.
A permit to which subsection (1)(a) applies shall not be issued unless the Commission is satisfied that —
the club seeking the issue of the permit is comprised wholly or mainly of persons who are senior citizens or pensioners, and guests participating in the play will be persons of a like kind; or
the club constitutes, or will conduct the bingo on behalf of, a charitable organisation.
A permit under this Division issued to an approved nominee on behalf of a club shall, unless the Commission otherwise specifies, be issued subject to the implied condition (which need not be specified in the permit or entered in the register) that no person shall participate in the gaming unless either —
he is a member of the club and there has been an interval of at least 48 hours between the time when he applied or was nominated for membership of the club and the time when he begins to take part in the gaming; or
he is a bona fide guest of a person who is a member of the club,
and for the purposes of paragraph (b) a person shall be taken not to be a bona fide guest if he himself makes any payment required for enabling him to obtain access to the premises, or to a part of them which is a part in which the gaming takes place, or if (apart from any stakes hazarded and the payment of any losses incurred by him in the gaming) he makes any payment in money or money’s worth in respect of the gaming.
A person shall not participate in the gaming under this Division —
if, unless section 96(1) or 97(1) applies or a permit otherwise provides, he is not present on the premises at the time when the gaming takes place there; or
on behalf of another person who is not present on the premises at that time.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.
[Section 95 amended: No. 24 of 1998 s. 59; No. 41 of 2018 s. 25(1); No. 53 of 2024 s. 71.]
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