Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAMING MACHINE (AMENDMENT) ACT 1991 (NO. 35 OF 1991) - SECT 6

6. Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended—

    (a)     by omitting subsection (1) and inserting the following subsection:

“(1) The Commissioner may, at the request of a licensee, approve a variation of the licence for the purpose of—

        (a)     reducing the number;

        (b)     altering the percentage pay-out applicable to specific coin denominations;

        (c)     altering the coin denomination; or

        (d)     altering the type;

of gaming machines to which the licence relates.”; and

    (b)     by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(5) Where the Commissioner—

        (a)     approves the variation of a licence for the purpose of paragraph 22 (1) (b); and

        (b)     specifies in the instrument of approval a period within which the variation is to be implemented;

during that period section 44 applies in respect of each relevant gaming machine the percentage pay-out of which has not been altered in accordance with the approval as if its percentage pay-out had been so altered.”.