AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

POKER MACHINE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 14 of 1984

	Section 4 of the Poker Machine Control (Amendment) Ordinance 1984 extends the definition of “poker machine” in section 3 of the Poker Machine Control Ordinance 1975 to include “any prescribed machines”.

	Regulation 1 inserts into the Poker Machine Regulations a new regulation 2A which nominates certain machines as prescribed machines for the purposes of section 3 of the Poker Machine Control Ordinance.

	Regulation 2 provides that the licensing fees for all such prescribed machines under the Poker Machine Control Ordinance are to be equivalent to the scale of fees set out in paragraph 3(e) of the Regulations.