Commencement: 12 July 1993

REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

GAMING (CONTROL) (AMENDMENT) ACT
NO. 19 OF 1993

Assent: 21.06.93
Commencement: 12.07.93

An Act to amend the Gaming (Control) Act [CAP. 172].

BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows: -

INSERTION OF NEW SECTION 5C IN CHAPTER 172

1.	The following section is inserted after section 5B of the Gaming (Control) Act [CAP. 172]: -

"PENALTY

5C.	(1)	If a licensee does not pay the gaming duty when it is due and payable he shall pay to the Collector a penalty at the rate of 10 percent of the unpaid gaming duty which shall accumulate monthly.

(2)	The penalty shall become immediately payable on the first day after the end of the calendar month during which it was due and payable and shall be payable in respect of the gaming duty due and payable during that period.

(3)	The Collector with the approval of the Minister may reduce or waive any penalty added under this section if it appears to him, that such reduction or waiver is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case."

COMMENCEMENT

2.	This Act shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

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