New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 26

26 Application for additional gaming machines on special grounds

(1) A hotelier or registered club may apply to the Authority for approval to keep an additional number of approved gaming machines to the number kept in the hotel or on any of the club’s premises as at the commencement of this section. Such an application is referred to as a "hardship application".

(2) A hardship application:

(a) is to be in the form and manner approved by the Director-General, and

(b) is to be dealt with in accordance with such arrangements as may be approved by the Director-General, and

(c) may only be made within the period of 3 months following the commencement of this section, and

(d) is otherwise subject to this Division.

(3) Subject to this Division, a hardship application may be made by a hotelier or registered club even though the hotelier or club is not, at the time of the application, authorised to keep any approved gaming machines. Accordingly, a reference in this Division to the keeping of additional approved gaming machines by any such hotelier or club is a reference to the keeping of the approved gaming machines to which the hardship application relates.

(4) A reference in this section to a hotelier includes a reference to a prospective hotelier as referred to in section 27 (2A).