Casino Control (Entry Levy) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

No. S 54

Casino Control Act

(CHAPTER 33A)

Casino Control
(Entry Levy) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 116(2) and (5)(c), 117(1) and 200 of the Casino Control Act, the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Home Affairs, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Casino Control (Entry Levy) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 31st January 2013.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Casino Control (Entry Levy) Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 52/2010) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “entry levy collection requirements”, the following definitions:

“ “law enforcement agency” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 186(6) of the Act;

“Patron Dispute Committee” has the meaning ascribed to it in regulation 2 of the Casino Control (Patron Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 432/2009);”.

New regulation 4A

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 4, the following regulation:

“Entry levy for over-stay

4A.—(1) Where a patron pays an entry levy for an over-stay period, the validity period of the entry levy shall be deemed to commence immediately after the expiry of the period in respect of which the person has paid an entry levy specified in section 116(1)(a) or (b) of the Act.

(2) In this regulation, “over-stay period” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 116(6B)(a) of the Act.”.

Amendment of regulation 8

4. Regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (a), the following sub-paragraph:

“(aa)

establish and implement an entry levy collection system which satisfies the entry levy collection requirements;”.

Amendment of regulation 17

5. Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) For the purposes of section 116(5)(c) of the Act, the persons to whom that section shall not apply are specified in the Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 18

6. Regulation 18(1) of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “It shall be a condition of a special employee licence that a” and substituting the word “A”; and

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (c) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(c)	make, authorise or permit any change to the approved entry levy collection system unless the approval of the Authority has first been obtained for the change.”.

Amendment of Schedule

7. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “a junket promoter or a junket representative” in paragraph 2 and substituting the words “an international market agent or international market agent representative”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 7, the following sub-paragraph:

“(aa)

an officer of the National Environment Agency acting in the discharge of his duties under the Environmental Public Health Act (Cap. 95) or the Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act (Cap. 310) and designated by the Chief Executive of the National Environment Agency as requiring entry to the casino premises for that purpose;”;

(c)

by deleting the words “National Council for Problem Gambling” in paragraph 7(d) and substituting the words “National Council on Problem Gambling”;

(d)

by deleting the words “in relation to national security, public order, public health, the enforcement of any written law or foreign relations,” in paragraph 7(g); and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph 8, the following paragraphs:

“9. Any person whose entry to the casino premises is required by —

(a)	an inspector;
(b)	an officer from a law enforcement agency; or
(c)	any of the individuals referred to in paragraph 7(g) or 11,

for the purpose of enforcement of any written law or prosecution of any offence under any written law, or to facilitate or enable the inspector, officer from a law enforcement agency or individual to perform his functions and responsibilities and the discharge of his duties, and who is approved by the Chief Executive to enter for that purpose.

10. Any person whose entry to the casino premises is required by an inspector, a member of the Patron Dispute Committee or the Authority for the purpose of determining any patron dispute, and who is approved by the Chief Executive to enter for that purpose.

11. Any other person requiring entry into the casino premises for the performance of his public functions and the discharge of his public duties, and who is approved by the Chief Executive to enter for that purpose.

12. Any member of a delegation, led by an individual referred to in paragraph 11, and who is approved by the Chief Executive to enter for that purpose.”.

Made this 24th day of January 2013.

RICHARD MAGNUS

Chairman,
Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore.

[CRA 206.02.00008; AG/LLRD/SL/33A/2010/12 Vol. 1]

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