Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1998 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1998

No. 14 of 1998

An Act to amend the Gaming Machine Act 1987

[Notified in ACT Gazette S180: 30 June 1998]

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

1. Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Gaming Machine (Amendment) Act 1998.

2. Commencement

   This Act commences, or shall be taken to have commenced, on 1 July 1998.

3. Principal Act

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

4. Insertion

   Before section 62 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part VIII:

5. Canberra Airport

6. A licence may not be granted in relation to premises at Canberra Airport.

7. An approval may not be granted under section 36 for the acquisition of a gaming machine to be operated at Canberra Airport.

8. In this section—

   ‘Canberra Airport’ means the following place, namely, Block 3, sections 17 and 28, Division of Pialligo in the District of Majura, and Blocks 587, 594, 595, 614 and 660 in that District.”.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 31 January 1995.  See also Acts Nos. 19 and 39, 1995;  Nos. 13, 49, 96 and 103, 1997.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 21 May 1998]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1998