PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Gaming Machine (Amendment No.2) Act 1996

No. 31 of 1996.
Certified on: 8.11.96

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. New Section 2A.
	"2A. MORATORIUM ON ISSUE OF PERMITS, ETC.,
2. New Section 3A.
	"3A. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MAY GIVE DIRECTIONS TO MINISTER AND BOARD.

AN ACT
entitled
Gaming Machine (Amendment No.2) Act 1996,
Being an Act to amend the Gaming Machine Act 1993, 
MADE by the National Parliament.
1	NEW SECTION 2A.
Part I of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after Section 2 the following new section:-
	"2A. MORATORIUM ON ISSUE OF PERMITS, ETC.,
	(1) The Head of State, acting on advice, may, by notice in the National Gazette, declare a period of moratorium during which ‑
	(a) no permits; or
	(b) operator's licences; or
	(c) no gaming machine technician's licences,
	shall be issued.
	"(2) A declaration under Subsection (1) shall specify the period during which the moratorium shall apply.
	"(3) During a period of moratorium declared under Subsection (1), no permits or licences of the type specified in the declaration shall be issued and no application for such permits or licences shall be accepted, notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary.
	"(4) A declaration under Subsection (1) does not prevent the renewal of permits or licences issued before the commencement of the period of moratorium.",
2	NEW SECTION 3A.
The Principal Act is amended by inserting after Section 3 the following new section:-
	"3A. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MAY GIVE DIRECTIONS TO MINISTER AND BOARD.
	The National Executive Council may give written directions to the Minister and the Board on policy in respect of gaming machines and the Minister and the Board shall give effect to such directions.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Gaming Machine (Amendment No.2) Act 1996 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Gaming Machine (Amendment No.2) Act 1996 was made by the National Parliament on 9 October 1996.
Speaker of the National Parliament.