New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAMING MACHINES REGULATION 2002 - REG 47

47 Self-exclusion schemes

(1) Section 49 (3) of the Act does not apply to a hotelier or registered club until 2 October 2002.

(2) For the purposes of section 49 of the Act, the prescribed requirements for the conduct of a self-exclusion scheme are that the scheme makes provision for the following:

(a) preventing the hotelier or registered club, or an employee of the hotelier or club, from refusing a participant’s request to participate in the scheme,

(b) requiring the participant to give a written and signed undertaking that he or she will not gamble in the hotel or on the premises of the club for a period specified in the undertaking (such undertaking may be in a standard form as approved by the Director-General from time to time),

(c) requiring the participant to be given an opportunity to seek independent legal or other professional advice at his or her own expense as to the meaning and effect of the undertaking before it is given,

(d) requiring a participant who enters into an undertaking to be provided by the hotelier or club (or an employee of the hotelier or club) with written information outlining the name and contact details of the problem gambling counselling service referred to in clause 46 (3),

(e) requiring the hotelier or club to ensure that responsible persons for the hotel or the club can readily identify the participant, whether by means of access to a recent photograph of the participant or otherwise,

(f) requiring the hotelier or club to make available, on request by any patron of the hotel or club, the standard self-exclusion form (if any) referred to in paragraph (b),

(g) preventing a participant from withdrawing from the scheme within 3 months after requesting participation in the scheme.

(3) The requirements prescribed by this clause constitute the minimum requirements for a self-exclusion scheme.

(4) In this clause:
"participant" means a person who has requested that he or she be prevented from entering or remaining on any area of a hotel or on the premises of a registered club that is nominated by the person.