Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CASINO (ELECTRONIC GAMING) ACT 2017 - SECT 9

    (1)     This section applies if the casino licensee applies for either of the following and is required to provide a social impact assessment with the application:

        (a)     a casino gaming machine authorisation certificate;

        (b)     a casino FATG authorisation certificate.

    (2)     The casino licensee must give public notice of the application, stating that—

        (a)     the social impact assessment for the application will be available for inspection by members of the public for 8 weeks after a day stated in the public notice (the "comment period")—

              (i)     at a place in the ACT named on the commission's website during ordinary business hours; and

              (ii)     on the commission's website; and

        (b)     any written submissions about the social impact assessment may be made to the commission within the comment period.

Note 1     Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act

, dict, pt 1).

Note 2     If a form is approved under the Control Act

, s 53D for a public notice, the form must be used.

    (3)     Before the comment period begins, the casino licensee must give the commission—

        (a)     the social impact assessment for the application; and

        (b)     a copy of the public notice.

    (4)     The casino licensee must—

        (a)     on or before the day the public notice is given, place a sign (the information sign ) containing information about the application in a prominent position outside each public entrance to the premises to which the application relates; and

        (b)     ensure that the sign stays there for the comment period.

    (5)     However, the casino licensee need not comply with subsection (4) if it would be impractical to do so.

Examples—impractical to place sign at address

1     there is no road access to the address

2     building work is being carried out at the address

    (6)     The information sign must include the following:

        (a)     a description of the application;

        (b)     a statement of when and where the social impact assessment for the application will be available;

        (c)     an invitation to make written submissions to the commission about the social impact assessment within the comment period;

        (d)     when the comment period ends;

        (e)     details of where to get more information about the application.

    (7)     The commission must make the social impact assessment available for inspection by members of the public during the comment period—

        (a)     at a place in the ACT named on the commission's website during ordinary business hours; and

        (b)     by publishing the assessment on the commission's website.

    (8)     The commission must not decide the application until the comment period has ended.