Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 2004 - SECT 154

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person is a licensee or licensee's employee; and

        (b)     the person—

              (i)     lends or offers to lend money to a person who is in, or appears to be about to enter, the licensee's authorised premises or part of them; or

              (ii)     extends or offers to extend credit to a person to allow the person to play a gaming machine on the authorised premises.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     In this section:

"credit" includes accepting postdated cheques, blank cheques and credit and debit cards.