National Gambling Act, 1996 (Act No. 33 of 1996)

Regulations on Limited Payout Machines

Chapter 3

43. Layout of site
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1)Upon application for a site operator licence, an applicant must submit with the application a clear and legible diagram, together with photographs of the exterior and interior of the business and a meaningful written description of the primary business.

 

2)The diagram contemplated in subregulation (1) must be representative and proportional, and must include specific reference to the size of the premises through the use of detailed measurements.

 

3)The diagram contemplated in subregulation (1) must depict the number of limited payout machines to be exposed for play and their location within the establishment in a manner which must provide adequate supervision of each limited payout machine and which must depict:
a)An unobstructed view of each limited payout machine from the point of supervision;
b)Any mirrors necessary to maintain adequate supervision; and
c)Any video surveillance equipment that will be used for supervision.

 

4)Where the premises to which an application for a limited payout machine site licence relates are accessible to persons under the age of 18 years, no such licence may be issued unless there is a separate cordoned off area wherein all limited payout machines are to be located: Provided that such limited payout machines may be located in a restricted part, as contemplated in the Liquor Act, 1989 (Act No. 27 of 1989), from which persons under the age of 18 years are excluded under section 45 read with section 44 (2) of that Act.

 

5)No limited payout machine shall be within two metres of the edge of the area contemplated in subregulation (1) where that area joins the floor area of the rest of the premises: Provided that such limited payout machines may be less than two metres from the edge of such area where such area is separated from the rest of the premises by a non-transparent continuous wall with a height of at least two metres and all such limited payout machines are located at least two metres from any apertures in such wall.