Section 28B: Technical standards for gaming machines
This section is inserted by Finance Act 2020, section 25.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
28B. Technical standards for gaming machines
(1) Every gaming machine operator shall ensure that
every gaming machine on its premises complies with such
technical standards as the Board may approve and publish in
the Gazette.
(2) (a) All gaming machines and their jackpot
systems shall be tested against such laboratory test as the
Board may approve and publish in the Gazette.
(b) The laboratory test under paragraph (a)
shall include an examination of the software and all games on
a gaming machine.
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(c) A certificate of any test under paragraph (a)
shall be submitted to the Authority.
(3) The operator of any gaming machine shall install
a firewall –
(a) certified by an international gaming
laboratory approved by the Authority; and
(b) designed to prevent –
(i) remote access to the hardware,
software and server of gaming
machine; and
(ii) the tampering with a gaming
machine controlled remotely.
(4) Every gaming machine operator shall seek the
approval of the Authority to –
(a) update, erase, delete or clear data; or
(b) change the software,
in a gaming machine.
(5) The mechanical meters, game box, jackpot
system and logic area of any gaming machine shall be sealed
by inspectors of the Authority.
(d) in section 29A, by repealing subsection (4);
(e) in section 29C –
(i) in subsection (1), by repealing paragraph (b) and
replacing it by the following paragraph –
(b) move a limited payout machine
from one site to another without
notifying the Authority.
(ii) by adding the following new subsection –
(4) A limited payout machine operator shall
ensure that all limited payout machines found on his
premises comply with such technical standards as the
Board may approve and publish in the Gazette.
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(f) in section 44, by repealing subsection (5) and replacing it by
the following subsection –
(5) The Board may, on application made for the
conduct of fixed odds bet on football matches taking place
outside Mauritius, issue a bookmaker licence authorising
the applicant to operate at such place as the Board may
approve.
(g) by repealing section 45 and replacing it by the following
section –