New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 32

32 Gaming machine thresholds for venues

(1) The Authority may, for each hotel and each set of premises of a registered club, set the maximum number of approved gaming machines that may be authorised under Part 5 to be kept in the hotel or on those premises.

(2) Any such maximum number is the "gaming machine threshold" for the hotel or club premises concerned.

(3) The gaming machine threshold for a hotel is subject to section 11.

(4) In the case of a new hotel or the premises of a new club, or any hotel or club premises in respect of which poker machine entitlements have not been allocated as at the commencement of this section (as inserted by the Gaming Machines Amendment Act 2008 ), the gaming machine threshold for the hotel or club premises may be set at zero.

(5) The gaming machine threshold for a hotel or the premises of a registered club may be increased or otherwise varied by the Authority in accordance with this Act.