Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous)

Regulation 2018

under the

Casino Control Act 1992

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following
Regulation under the Casino Control Act 1992.

PAUL TOOLE, MP Minister for Racing

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Casino Control Regulation 2009:

(a)	to exempt contracts for the transfer of gaming equipment from a casino operator to a related casino operator from the definition of controlled contract in the Casino Control Act 1992, and
(b)	to declare a casino precinct comprising the premises in the immediate vicinity of The Star casino for the purposes of a provision in the Act that enables the Commissioner of Police to direct casino operators to give a person an exclusion order to prohibit them from entering or remaining in the casino or casino precinct, and
(c)	to omit certain provisions relating to junkets, and
(d)	to prescribe the offence of contravention by a casino operator of a requirement of an approved internal control or administrative or accounting procedure as a penalty notice offence.

This Regulation is made under the Casino Control Act 1992, including sections 36 (definition of controlled

contract), 81 (4), 168A and 170 (the general regulation-making power).

Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018

under the

Casino Control Act 1992

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 21 December 2018 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

Casino Control Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of Casino Control Regulation 2009

Schedule 1 Amendment of Casino Control Regulation 2009

[1]      Clause 13 Contracts exempt from provisions of Act

Insert after clause 13 (e):

(f) a contract for the transfer of gaming equipment from a casino operator to a related casino operator.

[2]      Clauses 15–19

Omit the clauses.

[3]      Clause 46A

Insert after clause 46:

46A Casino precinct

Pursuant to section 81 (4) of the Act, the whole of the premises on the land bounded by Pyrmont Street, Union Street, Edward Street, Pirrama Road and Jones Bay Road at Pyrmont (other than such parts of those premises as from time to time constitute a casino) are declared to be a casino precinct for the purposes of section 81 of the Act.

Note. Section 81 of the Act enables the Commissioner of Police to direct casino

operators to exclude a person from premises comprised in a casino. For that purpose,

section 81 of the Act enables the regulations to declare premises that form part of or

are in the immediate vicinity of the building or complex of which a casino forms part to

be a casino precinct, and provides for the section to have effect as if the casino precinct

formed part of the casino.

[4]      Schedule 7 Penalty notice offences

Insert in appropriate order in Part 1:

Section 124 (4) $2,200