AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Poker Machine Control (Amendment) Ordinance 1984
No. 24 of 1984
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 27 June 1984.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
TOM UREN
Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Poker Machine Control Ordinance 1975
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Poker Machine Control (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.1
Commencement
2.  This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is fixed by the Minister of State for Territories and Local Government by notice in the Gazette.
Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Poker Machine Control Ordinance 1975.2
Interpretation
4.  Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding “and any prescribed machine” at the end of the definition of “poker machine”.
Distribution of income from poker machines
5.  Section 41 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from sub-section (1) “an amount equal to 10 per cent of the gross revenue derived by the club from operating poker machines on the club premises during that month” and substituting “the prescribed amount in relation to that month”; and
	(b)	by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
“(1A)  For the purposes of this section, the prescribed amount in relation to a month is an amount equal to 10% of the gross revenue derived by the club from operating poker machines on the club premises during that month, or, if another percentage for the purposes of this section is determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette, that other percentage of that gross revenue.”.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.
2.	No. 24, 1975 as amended by No. 61, 1976; No. 26, 1977; No. 46, 1978; Nos. 7 and 37, 1979; No. 11, 1981; Nos. 38 and 92, 1982; Act No. 166, 1981.