Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 2004 (NO. 34 OF 2004) - SECT 147

    (1)     The commission may, in writing, declare that an entity is an associated organisation for a club.

    (2)     However, the commission may make a declaration for an entity only if satisfied that—

        (a)     it is associated with the club; and

        (b)     it is not carried on for profit or gain to its members or anyone else; and

        (c)     it is incorporated; and

        (d)     its statement of objects—

              (i)     includes eligible objects; and

              (ii)     indicates that the eligible objects together make up the main part of its objects; and

        (e)     it is conducted mainly to achieve eligible objects; and

        (f)     approval of the entity as an associated organisation would not cause the club to stop being conducted mainly to achieve eligible objects.

    (3)     In this section—

        (a)     a reference to the statement of objects of an entity incorporated under the Corporations Act is a reference to its memorandum; and

        (b)     a reference to an eligible object of an entity that is not a club is a reference to an object that would be an eligible object if the entity were a club.