New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

CASINO CONTROL REGULATION 2001 - REG 32

32 Payment of prize money by cheque

(1) If the total prize money payable to a person exceeds $1,000, the casino operator must:

(a) notify the person, verbally or by the use of signs or other similar means, that the person may request the total prize money (or part of it) be paid by means of crossed cheque, and

(b) if the person makes any such request, pay the amount requested by means of a crossed cheque payable to the person.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) In this clause:
"crossed cheque" means a cheque crossed as referred to in section 53 of the Cheques Act 1986 of the Commonwealth as in force on the commencement of this clause.
"total prize money" means the total amount of money payable to a person as a result of:

(a) the person winning money on a gaming machine or winning a non-monetary prize that the person has, pursuant to section 66 (4) of the Act, chosen to be paid in money, or

(b) the person accumulating credits on a gaming machine,

or both, on a single occasion.

(3) This clause commences on 1 March 2002.