GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 75A
General requirement to award or pay prizes
GAMING MACHINES ACT 2001 - SECT 75A
General requirement to award or pay prizes
75A General requirement to award or pay prizes
(1) A hotelier or club must award or pay a prize that is won from the playing
of an approved gaming machine kept in the hotel or on the premises of the club
to a player who is entitled to the prize (the
"prizewinner" ) on request by the prizewinner and in accordance with
subsections (2)-(7).
: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.
(2) A prize may be
awarded in a non-monetary form or paid as money.
(3) If a prize is awarded in
a non-monetary form, the hotelier or club must give the prizewinner the choice
to be paid money instead.
(d) firearms or ammunition within
the meaning of the Firearms Act 1996 .
(6) The hotelier or club, or an
employee of the hotelier or club, need not award or pay a prize immediately
after a prizewinner requests it, but--
(a) in the case of a monetary
prize--must pay the prize within 48 hours of the request (except where the
prize is a jackpot prize under a linked gaming system operated under Part 10,
in which case the prize is to be paid in accordance with the rules under the
links licence concerned), and
(b) in the case of a non-monetary prize--must
award the prize--
(i) within the time stated in the information required to be
provided by the regulations with respect to award of such prizes, or
(ii) if
no such time is stated--within 48 hours of the request.