Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1990 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1990

No. 31 of 1990

An Act to amend the Gaming Machine Act 1987

[Notified in ACT Gazette S69:  2 October 1990]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1990.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  The remaining provisions commence on 1 October 1990.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Gaming Machine Act 1987.1

Interpretation

4.  Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting “20 cents” from paragraph (c) of the definition of “multi-coin machine” and substituting “$2”; and

(b)by omitting “20 cents” from paragraph (b) of the definition of “single-coin machine” and substituting “$2”.

Inspectors

5.  Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3) “he or she” and substituting “him or her”.

Conditions for issue of licences—gaming machines

6.  Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)   by omitting from subparagraph (2) (a) (iii) “3” and substituting “10”;

(b)by omitting subparagraph (2) (a) (iv) and substituting the following subparagraph:

“(iv)in respect of gaming machines designed to receive coins of a denomination above 20 cents; and”;

(c)by omitting from subparagraph (2) (b) (i) “or”;

(d)by adding at the end of paragraph (2) (b) the following word and subparagraph:

“; or (iii)in respect of gaming machines designed to receive coins of a denomination above 20 cents.”;

(e)by omitting from paragraph (3) (a) “or”; and

(f)by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:

“; or (c)in respect of gaming machines designed to receive coins of a denomination above 20 cents.”.

Distribution of income from gaming machines

7.  Section 57 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subparagraphs (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) of the definition of “prescribed percentage” in subsection (4) and substituting the following subparagraphs:

“(i)that does not exceed $4,000—5 per cent;

(ii)that exceeds $4,000 but does not exceed $8,000—10 per cent;

(iii)that exceeds $8,000 but does not exceed $16,000—17.5 per cent;

(iv)that exceeds $16,000 but does not exceed $300,000—19 per cent; or

(v)that exceeds $300,000—20 per cent; and”.

NOTE

1.  Ordinance No. 34, 1987 as amended by Nos. 25 and 26, 1988; Nos. 21 and 38, 1989; Act No. 14, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 18 September 1990.]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1990