35AGaming machine community benefit levy

35A Gaming machine community benefit levy (1) The Licensee of a casino must pay a gaming machine community benefit levy to the Director for each month. (2) For subsection (1), sections 144, 148(1), 150(2) and (3) and 152 to 159 of the Gaming Machine Act 1995 apply (except to the extent that they relate to the gaming machine tax or costs and charges payable under section 149A). (3) Those provisions apply as if: (a) the casino were licensed premises under the Gaming Machine Act 1995; and Gaming Control Act 1993 19 (b) the Licensee's casino licence were a gaming machine licence under that Act held by the Licensee; and (c) a reference in those provisions to a prescribed matter or thing were a reference to a matter or thing prescribed by regulation under this Act; and (d) section 144(1) required the report for a month to be lodged not later than the prescribed day in the following month; and (e) a reference in those provisions to a machine manager were a reference to a person holding a Casino Operative Licence – Gaming Standard. (4) If a monthly assessment is made under section 148(1) of the Gaming Machine Act 1995 as applied by subsection (2), by way of an electronic monitoring system installed at the casino, the period to be covered by the assessment commences when the system first reports data from the casino to the Director for the month and ends when the system first reports data from the casino to the Director in the next month.