Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 2004 (NO. 34 OF 2004) - SECT 21

    (1)     A corporation is an "eligible person "if—

        (a)     each executive officer and influential person of the corporation is an eligible person; and

        (b)     for a club—it is an eligible club; or

        (c)     for a corporation that is not a club—the corporation holds a general licence or on licence, and has held a licence of that particular kind for a continuous period of at least 1 year before the day it applies for a gaming machine licence; and

        (d)     the corporation is not the subject of a winding-up order, and has not been the subject of a winding-up order in the last 3 years; and

        (e)     a controller or administrator has not been appointed for the corporation in the last 3 years.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), the commission may decide that the corporation is an eligible person even though a provision of that subsection applies in relation to the corporation.

    (3)     However, the commission must not make a decision under subsection (2) in relation to the corporation unless satisfied that—

        (a)     the operation of gaming machines by the corporation would not adversely affect the public; and

        (b)     it is otherwise in the public interest that the corporation be treated as an eligible person.