Singapore legislation
Clause 200
Clause 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 prejudice to the generality of 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;
advertising relating to a casino;
the submission of reports by casino operators;
regulating within casino premises 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;
standards for the manufacture or supply of gaming equipment for use in a casino;
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 or licensed junket promoters;
the hearing of appeals to the Minister;
anti-money-laundering requirements;
additional duties of auditors of casino operators;
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, savings and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient.