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GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 148A Annual Tasmanian gaming licence fee

GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 148A

Annual Tasmanian gaming licence fee

(1)  A licensed provider must pay a Tasmanian gaming licence fee to the Commissioner of State Revenue in the following manner:
(a) if the licence takes effect on a day other than 1 July in any financial year, that proportion of the whole licence fee specified in subsection (2) that relates to the proportion of the financial year during which the licence has effect is to be paid within 3 days after the Tasmanian gaming licence takes effect;
(b) the whole licence fee specified in subsection (2) in respect of a complete financial year during which the licence is to have effect under the term of the licence is to be paid on the first day of that financial year;
(c) if the term of the licence will end on a day other than 30 June in any financial year, that proportion of the whole licence fee specified in subsection (2) that relates to the proportion of that financial year during which the licence has effect is to be paid on the first day of that financial year.
(2)  The amount of a Tasmanian gaming licence fee payable each year the licence is in force is, subject to subsection (1)  –
(a) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a sports betting endorsement – 200 000 fee units; or
(b) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a race wagering endorsement– 200 000 fee units; or
(c) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a simulated gaming endorsement – 300 000 fee units; or
(ca) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a simulated racing event endorsement – 300 000 fee units; or
(d) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a major lottery endorsement – 300 000 fee units; or
(da) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a betting exchange endorsement – 300 000 fee units; or
(db) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with a totalizator endorsement – 350 000 fee units; or
(dc) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with an agent endorsement – 5 000 fee units; or
(e) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(f) if the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with both a sports betting endorsement and a race wagering endorsement – 200 000 fee units; or
(g) if, in any case other than that provided for by paragraph (f) , the Tasmanian gaming licence is endorsed with more than one of the endorsements referred to in paragraphs (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) , (da) , (db) and (dc)  –
(i) the total of the amounts specified in respect of each endorsement endorsed on the Tasmanian gaming licence; or
(ii) 450 000 fee units –
whichever is lesser.
(3)  The amount of a Tasmanian gaming licence fee is automatically increased so as to comply with subsection (2) if a new gaming endorsement is endorsed on an existing Tasmanian gaming licence and subsection (1)(a) applies to the amount by which the fee is increased by the grant of the endorsement and to payment of that amount as if the grant of the endorsement were the grant of a Tasmanian gaming licence.
(4)  If a Tasmanian gaming licence is granted and any gaming endorsement granted and endorsed on the licence takes effect on a day later than the day on which the licence takes effect, subsection (1)(a) applies to the portion of the Tasmanian gaming licence fee relating to that gaming endorsement and to payment of that portion as if the grant of the endorsement were the grant of a Tasmanian gaming licence.
(5)  Notwithstanding subsections (1) , (2) , (3) and (4) , the holder of a Tasmanian gaming licence endorsed with the initial totalizator endorsement or second totalizator endorsement is not (while that totalizator endorsement is in effect) required to make any payments to the Commissioner of State Revenue under this section in respect of that totalizator endorsement or any of the following endorsements on the licence:
(a) agent endorsement;
(b) race wagering endorsement;
(c) sports betting endorsement;
(d) simulated racing event endorsement.
(6)  Notwithstanding subsection (1) , the fee payable under subsection (2)(da) in respect of a licence granted or renewed within 5 years after the day on which this section takes effect, for a period of 5 years, is payable as –
(a) a non-refundable instalment of 900 000 fee units on the grant or renewal of the licence; and
(b) a non-refundable instalment of 300 000 fee units payable on the third anniversary of the grant or renewal of the licence; and
(c) a non-refundable instalment of 300 000 fee units payable on the fourth anniversary of the grant or renewal of the licence.
(6A)  Where the holder of a betting exchange endorsement on a licence referred to in subsection (6) also holds any other endorsements referred to in subsection (2) , the maximum annual licence fee payable in respect of those other endorsements is a total of 150 000 fee units.
(7)  If a Tasmanian gaming licence with a betting exchange endorsement that is granted or renewed within 5 years after the day on which this section takes effect is surrendered before the expiration of the period for which the licence was granted or renewed, any subsequent instalments that would otherwise be payable in accordance with this section cease, on that surrender, to be payable.
(8)  In this section –
initial totalizator endorsement has the same meaning as in Division 5A of Part 4A ;
second totalizator endorsement has the same meaning as in Division 5A of Part 4A .