5Meaning of associate

5 Meaning of associate (1) For the purposes of this Act, the following persons are associates of a person: (a) a spouse or de facto partner of the person; (b) a parent or remoter lineal ancestor, son, daughter or remoter issue, brother or sister of the person; (c) a partner of the person; (d) a body corporate of which the person is an executive officer;

Gaming Machine Act 1995 9 (e) where the person is a body corporate, an executive officer of the body corporate; (f) a person who, in the previous year, has provided to the first- mentioned person advice for fee or reward in relation to gaming, the conduct of gaming or the manufacture, assembly, sale, supply, installation, alteration, obtaining, possession, operation, use, adjustment, maintenance or repair of gaming (g) an employee or employer of the person; (h) an officer or employee of a body corporate of which the person is an officer or employee; (j) an employee of a natural person of whom the person is an employee; (k) a body corporate whose executive officers are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the person, or where the person is a body corporate, of the executive officers of that body corporate; (m) a body corporate in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of which, or of the executive officers of which, the person is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act; (n) a body corporate in which the person holds a controlling interest; (p) where the person is a body corporate, a person who holds a controlling interest in the body corporate; (q) a person who is named in an affidavit forwarded or lodged by the person under section 44 or 74; (r) a person who is, because of this subsection, an associate of any other person who is an associate of the person (including a person who is an associate of the person by another application or other applications of this subsection). (2) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to hold a controlling interest in a body corporate if the person, alone or together with any associate or associates of the person, is in a position to control not less than 15% of the voting power in the body corporate or holds interests in not less than 15% of the issued shares in the body corporate.

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