41Gaming machine advertising and signs—exclusions

41 Gaming machine advertising and signs—exclusions

41 Gaming machine advertising and signs—exclusions

(1) Any gaming machine advertising that appears—

(a) in a gaming machine industry trade journal that is not ordinarily available to the general public, or

(b) in any promotional material provided by a registered club to a member of the club in accordance with subclause (4), or

(c) in a publication for a trade convention involving the gaming machine industry, or

(d) at a trade convention involving the gaming machine industry, or

(e) as part of an advertising campaign conducted by or on behalf of the State in relation to gambling harm, or

(f) as an accidental or incidental accompaniment to publishing of other matter and for which the person publishing the other matter does not receive any direct or indirect benefit (whether financial or not) for publishing the gaming machine advertising (in addition to any direct or indirect benefit that the person received for publishing the other matter), or

(g) in a publication advertising a public exhibition held at a State-owned museum or similar public institution,

is excluded from the operation of section 43 of the Act.

(2) Without limiting subclause (1), gaming machine advertising is excluded from the operation of section 43 of the Act if the advertising—

(a) relates to the supply, sale or manufacture of an approved gaming machine, and

(b) is directed to or at a person or body in the gaming machine industry, and

(c) is not on public display or accessible to the general public.

(3) Nothing in section 43 or 44 of the Act prohibits any of the following—

(a) the use or display of the corporate name or logo (or other corporate identifier such as a brand name) of or belonging to a corporation that is the holder of a gaming machine dealer’s licence (including the use or display of any such name, logo or identifier on the corporation’s business premises or property (including vehicles), on corporate clothing worn by staff or on any other corporate merchandise),

(b) the publishing of an annual report, or other similar corporate report or material, of any such corporation,