Gambling Matters Amendment Act 36 of 1999

Gambling Matters Amendment Act, 1999 (No. 36 of 1999)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
[ ]  Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.
__ Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 14 April 1999.)

Act

• to amend the National Gambling Act, 1996, so as:
  • to empower the Minister of Trade and Industry to determine by notice in the Gazette the date from which the national sphere of government or any organisation which holds or administers any asset or right in respect of gambling activities for or on behalf of that sphere shall not have any financial interest in any gambling activity;
  • to further regulate the date until when a provincial licensing authority shall disregard certain financial interest when considering an application for a casino licence; and
• to repeal the Gambling Act, 1965; and  
• to provide for matters connected therewith.  

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of  the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

Amendment of section 13 of Act 33 of 1996

1. Section 13 of the National Gambling Act, 1996, is hereby amended—

(a) by the substitution for paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

“(f) the State or any organ of the State or any organisation with which the State is concerned shall [from 10 May 1999], apart from taxes or levies. not have any financial interest in any gambling activity—

(i) in the case of the national sphere of government or any organisation which holds or administers any asset or right in respect of gambling activities for or on behalf of that sphere of government, from a date determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette;

(ii) in tie case of my organisation the founding law of which is administered by the provincial sphere of government and the shares of which may only be disposed of by the national sphere of government or with the consent or approval of that sphere of government, from a date determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette; or

(iii) in any other case, from 10 May 1999;”; and

(b) by the insertion, after paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

“(fA) a provincial licensing authority shall, notwithstanding paragraph (f) disregard any financial interest in any gambling activity held by the State, an organ of State or any organisation with which the State is concerned when considering an application for a licence contemplated in paragraph (j) before—

(i) the date contemplated in paragraph (f)(i), if that financial interest is held by the national sphere of government or any organisation referred to in paragraph (f)(i) or (ii); or

(ii) 10 May 1999, in any other case; ".

Repeal of Act 51 of 1965

2. The Gambling Act, 1965 (Act No. 51 of 1965), is hereby repealed.

Short title

3. This Act is called the Gambling Matters Amendment Act, 1999.

Commencement

30 April 1999