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GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 76ZZO Grant of minor gaming permit

GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 76ZZO

Grant of minor gaming permit

(1)  On receiving an application under section 76ZZN , the Commission may grant or refuse to grant a minor gaming permit to the applicant.
(2)  In determining whether or not to grant a minor gaming permit, the Commission may conduct such investigation as the Commission considers appropriate to determine whether the applicant is a person who in the opinion of the Commission is suitable to conduct authorised games in accordance with a minor gaming permit.
(3)  In conducting an investigation, the Commission may –
(a) make such inquiries in respect of the applicant and into the applicant's affairs as it considers appropriate; and
(b) take all reasonable steps it considers appropriate to enable and facilitate those inquiries.
(4)  The Commission by notice provided to the applicant may require the applicant to pay the reasonable costs of the whole or any part of an investigation undertaken by the Commission under subsection (2) and those costs –
(a) are a debt due and payable to the Crown; and
(b) may be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(5)  If the Commission has required an applicant to pay the reasonable costs of the whole or part of an investigation undertaken under subsection (2) , the Commission must not grant a minor gaming permit to that applicant until those costs have been paid or an arrangement for payment has been entered into by the applicant.
(6)  The Commission must not grant a minor gaming permit to a person unless satisfied that the proceeds of conducting the authorised game are to be used for the lawful purposes of a not-for-profit organisation or a charitable purpose and not for the private gain or benefit of any person except by way of charity.
(7)  The Commission may grant a minor gaming permit subject to such conditions as the Commission considers appropriate.
(8)  Without limiting subsection (7) , the Commission may include in the conditions to which a minor gaming permit is subject one or more of the following conditions:
(a) a condition requiring the minor gaming operator to distribute for charitable purposes or the lawful purposes of a not-for-profit organisation the whole, or a proportion determined by the Commission, of the profit obtained from the conduct of authorised games;
(b) a condition limiting the amount of turnover obtained from the conduct of authorised games that the minor gaming operator may use to meet the costs of promoting and conducting authorised games;
(c) a condition requiring the minor gaming operator to obtain the approval of the Commission for specified gaming equipment or to use specified gaming equipment of a class approved by the Commission;
(d) a condition requiring the minor gaming operator to be supplied with specified gaming equipment from a person listed on the Roll.
(9)  On granting a minor gaming permit to a person, the Commission must list in a Register of Minor Gaming Operators kept by the Commission the name of the person, any conditions to which the permit is subject and any details of the person that the Commission considers relevant.