Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 2004 - SECT 127C

    (1)     A class B licensee (the disposing licensee ) may dispose of 1 or more authorisations for class B gaming machines (a class B authorisation ) to—

        (a)     a class C licensee; or

        (b)     a class B licensee, or an applicant for a class B licence, who is purchasing the disposing licensee's business; or

        (c)     the casino licensee.

    (2)     The disposing licensee must notify the commission about the disposal of a class B authorisation to a class C licensee or the casino licensee.

Note 1     The disposal of a class B authorisation is a notifiable action (see pt 13A and sch 2).

Note 2     A notifiable action takes place—

        (a)     the prescribed number of days after the day the commission receives the notification (see s 173E (a)); or

        (b)     if the commission allows the notifiable action to take place on an earlier day—that day (see s 173E (b)); or

        (c)     if the commission asks for additional information under s 173E (c)—when the commission has notified the licensee that it is satisfied in relation to the additional information (see s 173E (c)).

    (3)     The disposing licensee commits an offence if—

        (a)     the disposing licensee sells a business to another person (the purchaser ); and

        (b)     the purchaser is not—

              (i)     a class B licensee; or

              (ii)     an applicant for a class B licence and authorisation certificate under section 28 (Licence and authorisation certificate for class B gaming machines—restricted application).

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

    (4)     An offence against subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.

    (5)     Subsection (3) does not apply if the class B licensee took all reasonable steps to ascertain whether the purchaser was a person mentioned in subsection (3) (b).

Note 1     The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (5) (see Criminal Code

, s 58).

Note 2     A licensee who intends to acquire an authorisation from a class B licensee under this subdivision must tell the commission about the acquisition (see s 99).

    (6)     In this section:

"disposing licensee's business" means a business operated by the disposing licensee at authorised premises under a general or on licence.

    (7)     This section is subject to section 127F (Trading authorisations—forfeiture requirements).