GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 56 Requirement for authorisation to keep or dispose of gaming machines

GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 56

56 Requirement for authorisation to keep or dispose of gaming machines

(1) A hotelier or club must not keep or dispose of an approved gaming machine unless--

(a) the keeping or disposal of the gaming machine is authorised by the Authority, and

(b) the hotelier or club complies with the requirements of or under this Act in relation to the keeping or disposal of the gaming machine and with the conditions to which the authorisation is subject.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(2) The Authority may, by instrument in writing, authorise a hotelier or club to keep or dispose of approved gaming machines. An authorisation to keep approved gaming machines may be varied by the Authority from time to time.

(3) An authorisation to keep approved gaming machines is an authorisation that relates to the total number of approved gaming machines kept in the hotel or on the premises of the club concerned at any one time as well as to the keeping of a particular approved gaming machine.

(4) The total number of approved gaming machines that the Authority may authorise to be kept in a hotel from time to time consists of the following--

(a) the number of approved gaming machines that corresponds to the number of gaming machine entitlements held in respect of the hotel licence,

(b) the number of approved gaming machines that corresponds to the number of permits (as referred to in Part 3) held in respect of the hotel licence.

(5) The total number of approved gaming machines that the Authority may authorise to be kept on any club premises from time to time is the number of approved gaming machines that corresponds to the number of gaming machine entitlements held in respect of the club licence.

(6) An authorisation by the Authority under this section is subject--

(a) to such conditions as may be imposed by the Authority in relation to the keeping or disposal of the approved gaming machines to which the authorisation relates, and

(b) to such conditions as are specified in this Act or as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(7) The Authority may vary an authorisation under this section in relation to a particular approved gaming machine to allow a modification of the gaming machine in accordance with section 64.

(8) In the instrument by which the Authority authorises the keeping or disposal of approved gaming machines, or by which it varies such an authorisation, the Authority is to identify each of the approved gaming machines to which the authorisation relates.