Gaming and Betting (Poker Machines) Amendment Act 1973 (NSW)

GAMING AND BETTING (POKER MACHINES)

AMENDMENT ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 73 , 1973.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the keeping, use and operation of, and the supplementary license tax payable in respect of, poker machines; for this and other purposes to amend the Gaming and Betting Act, 1912, and the Gaming and Betting (Poker Machines) Taxation Act, 1956; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to , 20th December, 1973.] BE

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the "Gaming and Betting

(Poker Machines) Amendment Act, 1973".

1. This Act shall be deemed to have commenced on 30th

November, 1973.

3. The Gaming and Betting Act, 1912, is amended—

(a) (i) by omitting section 50D (1) and by inserting

instead the following subsection : —

(1) Subject to this Part, the Minister, or an officer of the Chief Secretary's Department authorised to do so by the Minister, may issue to any club registered under Part X of the Liquor Act, 1912, and to any club registered under this Part, a license for the keeping, use and operation by the club of poker machines upon the club premises specified in the license.

(ii) by omitting section 50D (1A) ( a ) ;

(iii) by omitting section 50D (1B) ;

(b) by omitting from the Sixth Schedule the figures

"150" and by inserting instead the figures "175".

4. The Gaming and Betting (Poker Machines) Taxation

Act, 1956, is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of "net revenue from poker machines" in section 6 (2) the word "seventy-two" and by inserting instead the word "seventy-three";

(b)

(b)	by omitting from paragraph (b) (iii) of the same definition the words "one hundred and fifty dollars" and by inserting instead the words "one hundred and seventy-five dollars";
(c)	by omitting from section 6 (4) (a) the word "seventy-one" and by inserting instead the word "seventy-three";
(d)	by omitting from section 6 (4) (a) the words "twenty thousand dollars" and by inserting instead the words "thirty thousand dollars";
(e)	by omitting from section 6 (4) (b) the word "seventy-one" and by inserting instead the word "seventy-three";
(f)	by omitting from section 6 (4) (b) the words "twenty thousand dollars" where firstly, secondly and fourthly occurring and by inserting instead the words "thirty thousand dollars";
(g)	by omitting from section 6 (4) (b) the words "reduced by one dollar for every one dollar, up to twenty thousand dollars," and by inserting instead the words "reduced by three dollars for every one dollar".
HUNTER