Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 2004 (NO. 34 OF 2004) - SECT 19

    (1)     This section applies if an applicant for a licence or amendment of a licence is required to provide a social impact assessment.

    (2)     The applicant must publish an advertisement about the application in a newspaper published and circulating in the ACT.

Note     If a form is approved under the Control Act, s 53D for an advertisement, the form must be used.

    (3)     The advertisement must state that—

        (a)     the social impact assessment for the application will be available for inspection by members of the public at the commission's office during ordinary business hours for 6 weeks after a day stated in the advertisement (the 6-week comment period ); and

        (b)     any written submissions about the social impact assessment may be made to the commission within the 6-week comment period.

    (4)     Before the beginning of the 6-week comment period, the applicant must give the commission—

        (a)     the social impact assessment for the application; and

        (b)     a copy of the advertisement for the application mentioned in subsection (2).

    (5)     On or before the day the advertisement is published, the applicant must place a sign (the information sign ) containing information about the application in a prominent position outside each public entrance to the premises to which the application relates, and ensure that the sign stays at the entrance for the 6-week comment period.

    (6)     The information sign for an application must include the following:

        (a)     a description of the application;

        (b)     a statement of when and where the social impact assessment for the application will be available;

        (c)     an invitation to make written submissions to the commission about the social impact assessment within the 6-week comment period;

        (d)     when the 6-week comment period ends;

        (e)     details of where to get more information about the application.

    (7)     The commission must make the social impact assessment available for inspection by members of the public at the commission's office during ordinary business hours during the 6-week comment period.

    (8)     The commission must not decide the application until the 6-week comment period has ended.