200. Regulations

[Deleted by Act 14 of 2022 wef 01/08/2022]

[Deleted by Act 14 of 2022 wef 01/08/2022]

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 within the designated site and on casino premises for casino gambling, 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 notices, 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 or gaming programs in a casino of information relevant to casino gambling;

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 casino gambling expenditure or period of continuous casino 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;

applications for a special employee licence and renewal thereof, conditions of such licence, the duration and variation of such licence, the information that must be given to the Authority regarding special employees and the duties of special employees;

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, including simulated gambling;

regulating the conduct of casino gambling, the provision of credit and modes of payment for casino gambling, and the establishing and use of credit accounts and deposit accounts for patrons 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 notifiable 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;

the setting up of and requirements for a compliance function by casino operators;

requirements to detect or prevent money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

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.

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 provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations by a casino operator or a licensed special employee is a contravention for which the casino operator or licensed special employee is liable to disciplinary action under section 54 or 93, respectively;

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.