GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 47A Prohibition on accepting transfer of prize winning cheques

GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 47A

47A Prohibition on accepting transfer of prize winning cheques

(1) A person (other than a financial institution) must not accept the transfer of a cheque that the person knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is a prize winning cheque.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person who accepts the transfer of a prize winning cheque in, or within 500 metres of, a hotel or the premises of a club is taken to know that the cheque is a prize winning cheque unless the contrary is proven.

(3) In this section and section 47B--


"prize winning cheque" means a crossed cheque (as referred to in section 53 of the Cheques Act 1986 of the Commonwealth) that is paid by a hotelier or club as prize money to a person as a result of the person winning money or accumulating credits on an approved gaming machine.