New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAMING MACHINES REGULATION 2002 - REG 42

42 Provision of player activity statements under player reward schemes

(1) Player activity statements are required to be provided by a hotelier or registered club under section 45 (4) of the Act only if the player reward scheme being conducted by the hotelier or club is one in which a participant’s activity in relation to playing gaming machines is recorded by electronic means.

Note: Section 45 (4) of the Act provides that it is an offence (maximum penalty 100 units) for hoteliers and clubs that conduct player reward schemes not to provide player activity statements in accordance with the regulations. Because of section 45 (6) of the Act, the requirement to provide player activity statements in accordance with this clause does not apply to hoteliers and clubs until 2 October 2002.

(2) For the purposes of section 45 (4) and (5) of the Act, player activity statements relating to the playing of approved gaming machines by the participants in a player reward scheme conducted by the hotelier or club must:

(a) be made available, on request by the participant to whom any such statement relates, on a monthly basis, and

(b) include, as a minimum, the information referred to in subclause (3).

(3) The following information, provided in the form approved by the Authority, is the minimum information that must be included in a participant’s player activity statement:

(a) the total amount of turnover by the participant during the monthly period covered by the statement,

(b) the total wins recorded during the monthly period,

(c) the net expenditure (ie turnover less wins) during the monthly period,

(d) the total points earned and redeemed during the monthly period as the result of playing gaming machines under the scheme,

(e) the total length of time over each 24-hour period during the monthly period when the participant’s player card was inserted in gaming machines under the scheme ( "the daily record"),

(f) the total length of time that the participant’s player card was inserted in gaming machines under the scheme during the monthly period.

(4) The daily record is required to be included in the player activity statement only in respect of those days that the participant’s player card was used.

(5) A player activity statement is to also include a note stating that the information detailed in the statement:

(a) only relates to the occasions on which the participant used his or her player card under the player reward scheme to play a gaming machine, and

(b) does not necessarily relate to all of the participant’s gaming machine activity during the monthly period, and

(c) may not include information about wins from playing gaming machines that are part of a linked gaming system within the meaning of Part 10 of the Act.

(6) Information to the effect that player activity statements are available on request must:

(a) be given to each participant at the time the participant joins the player reward scheme conducted by the hotelier or registered club, and

(b) be included in any promotional material relating to the player reward scheme.

(7) A player activity statement must include a problem gambling notice as referred to in clause 25.

(8) Player activity statements must be provided free of charge by the hotelier or registered club. However, if a participant requests a subsequent player activity statement to be provided in respect of a monthly period, the hotelier or club may charge for providing the subsequent statement in accordance with the scale of charges approved by the Authority.