Section 109: Central electronic monitoring system

109. Central electronic monitoring system (1) The Director-General shall cause to be set up a central electronic monitoring system— (a) to ensure continuous on-line recording, monitoring and control of lottery games, VLTs, gaming machines, limited payout machines, gambling activities and betting transactions; and (b) to receive and monitor information about— (i) the operations of a gaming machine or limited payout machine and betting operations of a totalisator operator or bookmaker; (ii) the number and location of any equipment; (iii) the potential of gaming machines and limited payout machines for problem gambling; G2 – 51 [Issue 5] Gambling Regulatory Authority Act (iv) faults with gaming machines and limited payout machines; or (v) any tampering with gaming machines and limited payout machines. (2) A gaming machine operator, limited payout machine operator, totalisator operator, bookmaker or the Operator shall— (a) link his equipment to the central electronic monitoring system by such date as may be notified in writing by the Director-General; (b) bear the costs of replacing or upgrading equipment or software in order to enable the linking to the central electronic monitoring system; or (c) not carry out his lottery games, gaming and betting operations after the date referred to in paragraph (a) unless the equipment is linked to the central electronic monitoring system. (3) (a) The Director-General may provide a standard software for use by all bookmakers to record betting transactions, on such terms and conditions as the Director-General may determine. (b) Where a software is provided under paragraph (a), the bookmaker shall, as from a date to be determined by the Director-General, make use of such software to record his betting transactions. (c) Where a software is not provided under paragraph (a), the bookmaker may use his own software to record his betting transactions on such terms and conditions as the Director-General may approve. (4) The Authority shall, for the purposes of Part XXIII, have on-line access to the central electronic monitoring system. (5) For the purposes of this section, “equipment” means any gaming machine, limited payout machine, totalisator, computer used by a bookmaker for his betting operations or server used by the Operator for the conduct of lottery games or operation of VLTs. [S. 109 amended by s. 9 (e) of Act 20 of 2009 w.e.f. 1 January 2011; s. 7 (c) of Act 37 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011; s. 10 (l) of Act 26 of 2012 w.e.f. 22 December 2012.] (S. 109 came into operation on 6 December 2007.)