Liquor Act 1982 - Liquor Amendment (Gambling Signage) Regulation 2000 (2000-378) [GG No 93 of 21.7.2000, p 6459] (NSW)
2000 No 378
| Liquor Amendment (Gambling | New South Wales |
Signage) Regulation 2000
under the
Liquor Act 1982
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Liquor Act 1982.
RICHARD FACE, M.P.,
Minister for Gaming and Racing
Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to require certain signs to be displayed on hotel premises in which approved gaming devices are situated and on those devices themselves, being signs relating to the chances of winning major prizes by playing those devices.
This Regulation is made under the Liquor Act 1982, including section 125D and section 156 (the general regulation-making power).
| Published in Gazette No 93 of 21 July 2000, page 6459 | Page 1 |
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| Clause 1 | Liquor Amendment (Gambling Signage) Regulation 2000 |
Liquor Amendment (Gambling Signage)
Regulation 2000
1 Name of Regulation
This Regulation is the Liquor Amendment (Gambling Signage)
Regulation 2000.
2 Commencement
This Regulation commences on 14 August 2000.
3 Amendment of Liquor Regulation 1996
The Liquor Regulation 1996 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
4 Notes
The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.
2000 No 378
Liquor Amendment (Gambling Signage) Regulation 2000
| Amendment | Schedule 1 |
| Schedule 1 | Amendment |
(Clause 3)
Clause 52N
Insert after clause 52M:
52N Display of information concerning chances of winning prizes on
approved gaming devices
(1)
A hotelier must display, in accordance with this clause, notices providing information about the chances of winning a major prize from the use or operation of any approved gaming device in the hotel.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(2) The information contained in the notices must be in the
following form: machine is generally no better than one in a million.
(3) The notices must be:
(a)
displayed in each part of the hotel where approved gaming devices are located in such manner and in such a place that it would be reasonable to expect that a person entering the part of the hotel in which the notices are displayed would be alerted to their contents, and
(b)
prominently displayed on the front or top of each approved gaming device kept in the hotel or displayed by means of a permanently visible light emitting display that forms part of each such device.
(4) The matter contained in a notice must be:
(a)
in the case of a notice displayed as referred to in subclause (3) (a)—in letters and figures of not less than one centimetre in height, and
(b)
in the case of a notice displayed as referred to in subclause (3) (b)—in letters of not less than 0.4 centimetres in height.
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