Singapore legislation
Section 200
Section 200
Regulations
(1)
The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for any purpose for which regulations are required to be made under this Act and generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1), the Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:
the manner of appointment, conduct and discipline and the terms and conditions of service of inspectors and other employees of the Authority;
the establishment of funds for the payment of gratuities and other benefits to employees of the Authority;
the fees to be charged in respect of anything done or any services rendered by the Authority under or by virtue of this Act;
the installations, devices and equipment to be provided on casino premises for gaming, surveillance, communications and other purposes and the maintenance of the installations, devices and equipment;
the hours of operation of a casino and any temporary cessation of operation;
the facilities and amenities to be provided for patrons of, and inspectors on duty in, a casino and the maintenance of those amenities;
the provision to players of gaming machines in a casino of information relevant to gaming on gaming machines;
the adjudicating of disputes between a casino operator and its patrons;
the provision and security of drop boxes and other places for the depositing of money;
with respect to casino advertising and promotions —
regulating or prohibiting advertising and promotional activities relating to a casino, including regulating the content of any advertisement or promotion;
applications for the approval of advertisements or promotional activities relating to a casino, including the fees, if any; and
the obligations of casino operators in relation to persons who carry out advertising or promotional activities relating to a casino;
applications for the approval of any part of a responsible gambling programme;
the responsible gambling requirements referred to in section 170B, which may include, but are not limited to —
the establishment by a casino operator of a system to enable a patron of its casino to set limits on the patron’s gambling expenditure or period of continuous gambling;
the establishment by a casino operator of a system to determine and impose a maximum number of visits which a patron may make to its casino in each month;
patron education;
provision of problem gambling assistance, intervention or facilities;
training of casino employees in relation to responsible gambling;
keeping of records related to responsible gambling activities; and
regular review of responsible gambling measures;
the submission of reports by casino operators;
regulating the activities of persons who are on the casino premises in the course of their employment or prohibiting any of those activities;
the testing of operations, or of proposed operations, in a casino;
regulating the conduct of gaming and provision of credit for gaming in a casino;
the manufacture, supply or operation of gaming equipment for use in a casino, and the provision of testing services for such gaming equipment;
the movement, acquisition, storage, servicing, rectification or destruction of gaming equipment used or for use in a casino;
the form of controlled contracts within the meaning of section 72, the approval of the Authority in relation to specified classes of those contracts and the requirements for disclosure to the Authority of any such contracts;
the establishment of a system of awarding demerit points for the purpose of disciplinary actions against casino operators, licensed special employees of a casino, licensed international market agents or licensed international market agent representatives;
the procedure for any representations to be made against, or any request for a review of, a decision by the Authority; (v)the procedure for disciplinary proceedings against any person licensed or approved by the Authority under this Act;
regulating agents of casino operators, including any licensing or approval thereof;
the furnishing of any deposit, prepayment, performance bond or other form of security required by the Authority under this Act, and the procedure for drawing on, forfeiting or returning any such deposit, prepayment, performance bond or other form of security;
the enforcement of any written undertaking given under section 185D;
the system of internal controls for casino operations;
(za)the setting up of and requirements for a compliance function by casino operators;
(zb)requirements to detect or prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism;
(zc)additional duties of auditors of casino operators;
(zd)any other matter or thing required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(3)
Regulations made under this Act —
may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with —
in the case of a casino operator, a fine not exceeding $100,000; or
in any other case, a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both;
may be of general or of specially limited application;
may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and
may provide for such transitional, saving and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient.