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Gaming Machine Act 1991
sec.55AApplications of significant community impact
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### sec.55A Applications of significant community impact
The following applications are applications of significant community impact—
an application for a gaming machine licence including an application to grant a gaming machine licence in place of a licence to be surrendered under section 95 ;
an application for additional licensed premises;
an application to have the approved number of gaming machines for licensed premises increased by a significant number (to be fixed under a regulation);
another application that the commissioner designates, by written notice to the applicant, as an application of significant community impact.
The commissioner must—
make available for inspection, at the department’s head office, a list of all applications currently before the commissioner that are of significant community impact; and
publish notice of each of the applications on the department’s website.
The list must include—
the nature of each application; and
the location of premises to which each application relates.
s 55A ins 2000 No. 51 s 27
amd 2007 No. 42 s 32 ; 2012 No. 25 s 109 (1) ; 2013 No. 25 s 47
(sec.55A-ssec.1) The following applications are applications of significant community impact— an application for a gaming machine licence including an application to grant a gaming machine licence in place of a licence to be surrendered under section 95 ; an application for additional licensed premises; an application to have the approved number of gaming machines for licensed premises increased by a significant number (to be fixed under a regulation); another application that the commissioner designates, by written notice to the applicant, as an application of significant community impact.
(sec.55A-ssec.2) The commissioner must— make available for inspection, at the department’s head office, a list of all applications currently before the commissioner that are of significant community impact; and publish notice of each of the applications on the department’s website.
(sec.55A-ssec.3) The list must include— the nature of each application; and the location of premises to which each application relates.
- (a) an application for a gaming machine licence including an application to grant a gaming machine licence in place of a licence to be surrendered under section 95 ;
- (b) an application for additional licensed premises;
- (c) an application to have the approved number of gaming machines for licensed premises increased by a significant number (to be fixed under a regulation);
- (d) another application that the commissioner designates, by written notice to the applicant, as an application of significant community impact.
- (a) make available for inspection, at the department’s head office, a list of all applications currently before the commissioner that are of significant community impact; and
- (b) publish notice of each of the applications on the department’s website.
- (a) the nature of each application; and
- (b) the location of premises to which each application relates.