New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 140

140 Unlawful interference with authorised CMS

(1) A person must not:

(a) possess any device or equipment made or adapted, or intended by the person to be used, for interfering with the normal operation of an authorised CMS, or

(b) do anything that is calculated, or is likely, to interfere with the normal operation of an authorised CMS.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to or in respect of the possession of any device or equipment, or to anything done in good faith, in connection with the installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of an authorised CMS by:

(a) the CMS licensee who is operating the authorised CMS, or

(b) a technician, or

(c) any other person approved by the CMS licensee.

(3) A person must not gain, whether personally or for another person, an advantage in the operation of an approved gaming machine that is connected to an authorised CMS as the result of knowing about any faulty or fraudulent computer programming in relation to the CMS.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(4) A person must not authorise or permit another person to act in a way that is an offence under another provision of this section.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.