New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAMING MACHINES REGULATION 2002 - REG 14

14 Other requirements relating to prizes

(1) A hotelier or registered club must not, except with the Authority’s approval, vary the prize schedule of any approved gaming machine kept in the hotel or on the premises of the club.

(2) A hotelier or registered club must not permit an approved gaming machine kept in the hotel or on the premises of the club to be operated unless the gaming machine has been adjusted so that the value of the prizes won by players of the gaming machine is not less than 85% of the total money paid by the players of the gaming machine.

(3) If a hotelier or registered club offers or provides non-monetary prizes, the hotelier or club must make the following information readily accessible in any area of the hotel or club in which approved gaming machines are located:

(a) the nature or form of prizes offered,

(b) the terms on which prizes are awarded or paid,

(c) the right of a prizewinner to choose to receive money instead of any non-monetary prize awarded,

(d) any option available to a prizewinner to transfer a non-monetary prize for another non-monetary item or right,

(e) if the award of a non-monetary prize will not be made within 48 hours of the request for the prize-the time in which the hotelier or club will award the prize.

(4) A hotelier or registered club, or a person acting on behalf of the hotelier or club, who purchases an item to be offered as a prize must, unless the Authority approves otherwise, purchase the item directly from a person whose business comprises the production or sale of items of that kind.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.