A voluntary scheme under which a patron undertakes in writing to be excluded from the gaming area of one or more venues for a specified period (minimum 6 months in NSW). Venues must ensure access to a scheme and publicise it. Identification at entry is required to make enforcement workable — historically via photograph, increasingly via facial-recognition technology.
This term sits in the NSW gaming & clubs section of the working glossary — vocabulary drawn from the Gaming Machines Act 2001, the Liquor Act 2007, the Registered Clubs Act 1976, and L&GNSW guidance.
The NSW statute governing approved gaming machines in hotels and registered clubs. Part 4 covers harm-minimisa…
Requires a hotelier or club authorised to keep approved gaming machines to (a) ensure patrons have access to a…
The clause setting out the minimum requirements of a NSW self-exclusion scheme — including written and signed …
A self-exclusion arrangement covering more than one venue. The patron's undertaking applies across all partici…
The NSW-mandated role responsible for harm-minimisation activity on the gaming floor — welfare checks, interve…
Two parallel record-keeping obligations. The gambling incident register (NSW Gaming Machines Regulation 2019) …