137Unlawful interference with gaming equipment

137 Unlawful interference with gaming equipment (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not: (a) have possession of a device made or adapted, or intended by the person to be used, for interfering with the normal operation of gaming equipment on licensed premises; (b) do any act or thing calculated, or likely, to interfere with the normal operation of gaming equipment on licensed premises; (c) except as provided in section 134, do an act or thing calculated to interfere with gaming equipment under which the return to a player for a result obtained on a gaming machine on licensed premises is different to the return provided for that result by the game as approved by the Director; (d) do an act or thing calculated to render a gaming machine on licensed premises, either temporarily or otherwise, incapable of producing a winning combination; or (e) wilfully insert, or cause to be inserted, in a gaming machine on licensed premises anything other than a gaming token of the denomination or type displayed on the gaming machine as a gaming token to be used in order to operate or gain credit on the gaming machine.

Gaming Machine Act 1995 117 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any act or thing done in good faith in connection with: (a) the installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair of gaming equipment by a licensed repairer; (b) the carrying out of an installation, alteration, adjustment, maintenance or repair prescribed for the purposes of section 58(3); (c) an alteration to a gaming machine to effect a change of game, gaming token denomination or betting unit approved, or caused, by the Director under section 40A; or (d) the exercise or performance of a power or function by an inspector under this Act. (3) A person shall not knowingly, because of fraudulent computer programming, gain for that person or another person an advantage in the operation of gaming equipment. (4) A person who dishonestly, or because of gross negligence, during the design, manufacture or assembly of gaming equipment, makes provision to subsequently gain for that person or another person an advantage in the operation of the gaming equipment is guilty of an offence.