New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAMING MACHINES REGULATION 2002 - REG 71

71 Disposal of authorised progressive gaming machines or systems

(1) A hotelier or registered club must not:

(a) dispose of an authorised progressive gaming machine, or

(b) dispose of an authorised progressive system, or

(c) dispose of any accumulated progressive jackpot amounts on any such gaming machine or system, or

(d) make alternative use of any such progressive jackpot amounts,

unless the hotelier or club has received the Authority’s written approval to do so.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) A hotelier or registered club must not dispose of an authorised progressive gaming machine or authorised progressive system unless:

(a) all progressive jackpot amounts accumulated on the progressive gaming machine or progressive system have been won, or

(b) any accumulated progressive jackpot amounts are transferred to another authorised progressive gaming machine or other authorised progressive system in the hotel or on the premises of the club, or

(c) any accumulated progressive jackpot amounts are, in accordance with subclause (3), applied to pay additional prizes on another approved gaming machine in the hotel or on the premises of the club, or

(d) the Authority, in exceptional circumstances, approves of an alternative proposal to use any accumulated progressive jackpot amounts and the Authority is satisfied that those amounts are to be used in accordance with that proposal.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) The application of accumulated progressive jackpot amounts under subclause (2) (c) is subject to the following:

(a) the hotelier or registered club must deduct from the value of the accumulated jackpot prize the amount provided by the hotelier or club to initially start up the prize offered,

(b) the hotelier or registered club must ensure that adequate safeguards exist to control any scheme devised,

(c) the hotelier or registered club must include information as to the method of dispersing accumulated progressive jackpot amounts from the prize pool of the authorised progressive gaming machine or authorised progressive system being disposed of with the records required to be reported to the Authority in accordance with this Division.