New South Wales
New South Wales is a southeastern Australian state, distinguished by its coastal cities and national parks. Sydney, its capital, is home to iconic structures such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Inland are the rugged Blue Mountains, rainforests and outback towns where opals are mined. Along the
coastline are long surfing beaches. The Hunter Valley region, in the north, has dozens of wineries.
Te Liquor & Gaming NSW department is responsible for the regulation of the gaming sector in NSW and is governed by the Casino Control Act 1992, Gaming Machines Act 2001 and Registered Clubs Act 1976. Te L&GNSW launched a Strategic Plan for 2017-19 to improve governance structure and responsible gambling schemes.
l Betting - Wagering on sport, racing and
betting in NSW is conducted by TAB which is licensed under the Totalisator Act of 1997 and the Betting and Racing Act 1998. TAB is the exclusive provider of off-course retail betting services in NSW. Betting service providers in NSW can operate on racecourses and are licensed by the racing controlling bodies.
Horse racing in NSW is governed by Racing NSW which comprises of 100 professional clubs, 27 amateur clubs and 116 race tracks. Racing NSW was established under the Toroughbred Racing Act of 1996 and divided into three thoroughbred racing sectors – Provincial Racing Association of NSW which comprises of five race clubs in the Sydney area; Racing NSW Country and Metropolitan Clubs which runs via five Australian Turf Clubs, City Tattersall’s Club and Tattersall’s Club.
Toroughbred racing wagering was up by 13 per cent last year to almost $3.5bn whilst all racing
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wagering reached $5.45bn. Tere are 171 bookmakers in NSW and 38 sports betting licences.
l EGMs - Of the 195,000 EGMs in Australia,
NSW operates just under half. It’s the king of the states in terms of pokie machines and capital expenditure on the pokies in NSW is higher than in any other Australian state. NSW was the first state to introduce slots into community clubs and they arrived back in 1956.
Last year a new Centralised Monitoring System was introduced for all EGMs to monitor activity and data collection which was awarded to MaxGaming. Meanwhile there was also a reform package to cap EGMs at their current level in ‘high risk’ areas.
Tere are two types of licences available for the operation of gaming machines which operate under the Gaming Machine Act 2001:
1) A Hotel Gaming Licence in the form of Gaming Machine Entitlements (GMEs) and Poker Machine Permits (PMPs). Tere must be one GME and/or PMP for each gaming machine at the hotel. Te threshold is limited by floor space and hotels can have up to a maximum of 30 slots and if they have more than 10 they must be in a separate hotel gaming room. Hotels pay tax when gaming machine profits exceed $50,000 per quarter.
2) Club Gaming Licence in the form of GMEs. Operators must have one GME for each machine and the threshold is also limited to floor space. Clubs only pay tax when gaming machine profits exceed $250,000 per quarter ($1m per year).
Data shows there are 1,100 Clubs in NSW and almost 70,000 gaming machines. Net Profit for the first six months of 2018 period was $1.94bn.
Tere are 1,460 hotels with 22,600 EGMs and net profit for the first six months of 2018 was $1.16bn. Tere are also 1,500 slots in the casinos.
l Casinos - Te casinos operate under the Casino Control Act 1992 and there is one casino
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