22ARecognition of interstate matters by Director

22A Recognition of interstate matters by Director (1) Where the Director: (a) has power under this Act or the Regulations to take an action or to make, grant or issue an instrument (a Territory action or instrument); and (b) is satisfied that an action taken, or an instrument made, granted or issued, under a corresponding law (an interstate action or instrument) is equivalent to the Territory action or instrument, the Director may recognise the interstate action or instrument for the purposes of this Act. (2) Where an interstate action or instrument is recognised under subsection (1), this Act and the Regulations apply (with the necessary changes) in relation to the interstate action or instrument as if it were the Territory action or instrument to which it is equivalent. (3) In determining whether an interstate action or instrument is equivalent to a Territory action or instrument, the Director may have regard to the matters that the Director considers relevant. (4) Where: (a) the Director has recognised an interstate action or instrument for the purposes of this Act; and (b) the interstate action or instrument is altered, amended or varied, or is revoked or ceases to be in force, under the corresponding law,

Gaming Machine Act 1995 16 the Director may review the decision to recognise the interstate action or instrument and may: (c) where the interstate action or instrument is altered, amended or varied – recognise the interstate action or instrument as altered, amended or varied or revoke the decision to recognise the interstate action or instrument; or (d) where the interstate action or instrument is revoked or ceases to have effect – revoke the decision to recognise the interstate action or instrument. (5) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) apply (with the necessary changes) in relation to an interstate action or instrument that is reviewed under subsection (4). (6) Where the Director is satisfied that: (a) a person has complied with certain requirements under a corresponding law; and (b) those requirements are equivalent to requirements imposed on the person by or in relation to the Director under this Act or the Regulations, the Director may waive compliance by the person with the requirements under this Act or the Regulations. (7) Where: (a) the Director has waived compliance with requirements under this Act or the Regulations under subsection (6); and (b) those requirements, or the requirements under the corresponding law that the Director determined for the purposes of the waiver were equivalent to those requirements, are altered, amended or varied or are repealed and replaced or are repealed without replacement, the Director may revoke the waiver. (8) In this section: corresponding law means a law of a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth that corresponds with provisions of this Act.

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