(1) This section applies if a licensee wants to make 1 or more of the following changes to a gaming machine operated under an authorisation certificate (a technical amendment ):
(a) change the percentage payout of the gaming machine;
(b) change the basic stake denomination of the gaming machine;
(c) change the game installed on the gaming machine;
(d) change any other technical detail mentioned in the authorisation schedule.
(2) The licensee must notify the commission about the proposed technical amendment.
Note 1 Making a technical amendment to a gaming machine 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)).