Gaming Machine Act 1995
85Gaming equipment not to be an annoyance, &c.
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85 Gaming equipment not to be an annoyance, &c. (1) A licensee shall not locate, or allow to be located, gaming equipment on the licensee's licensed premises in such a way as to be an annoyance due to the location of the gaming equipment, the noise generated by the operation of the equipment or for any other reason. (2) A listed person or licensee shall not allow gaming equipment to convey or exhibit: (a) a false, misleading, rude or offensive message; or (b) excessive or unnecessary advertising. (3) Except as may be provided by the game of a gaming machine or an arrangement or system approved under section 134, a person shall not: (a) do or omit to do anything on licensed premises that unfairly or unreasonably entices a person to play a particular gaming machine in preference to others; or (b) conduct or allow to be conducted any promotional activity that entices a person to play or rewards a person for playing gaming machines unless the rewards or prizes provided by the activity are not related to a particular gaming machine a person must play in order to be entitled to the rewards or prizes. (4) Where, in the opinion of an inspector, a contravention of this section is being or has been committed, the Director may, by written notice, direct a listed person, licensee or person: (a) to do or cease doing anything that constitutes the contravention; or (b) not to again do or omit to do anything that constituted the contravention.
Gaming Machine Act 1995 88 (5) A listed person, licensee or person shall not contravene or fail to comply with a direction given under subsection (4).