Licence conditions and duties

1. You must hold a gaming industry employee licence if you are employed by or working for a venue operator, the monitoring licensee, or a gaming machine services provider, and perform any of these duties:

2. You must hold a gaming industry employee licence to perform any of these duties:

3. If you are working as a sole employee for a bingo centre operator, you must hold a gaming industry employee licence to perform any of these functions in relation to the operation or administration of a bingo game:

At a bingo centre, a volunteer acting in good faith for only one community or charitable organisation within any period of seven days is not required to hold a licence, even if they are performing the functions shown above.

Employees who do not perform the above functions do not need a gaming industry employee licence.

Please note:
+ the logic area is a locked cabinet area (with its own locked door) that houses electronic components that have the potential to significantly influence the operation of the gaming machine
* supervise means to direct or oversee the performance or operation of a gaming industry employee
# supervise means to direct or oversee the performance or operation of an employee.

1. You must provide written notice to the VGCCC within 14 days of:

• any change in your name or address
• any finding of guilt for any offence under statute or at common law recorded under any jurisdiction against you (excluding non-custodial traffic matters) and, in addition, details of any proceedings leading to your participation in a diversion program
• the commencement of any bankruptcy proceedings or entry into a formal or informal scheme of arrangement (however it is described) with your creditors or any formal administration under the Bankruptcy Act 1966
• details of the outcome of any litigation against you, or to which you were a co-defendant, whether personally (that is, as an individual) or via business associations (for example, legal action that involved a company, joint venture, incorporated association or partnership of which you are or were a director, or office holder or partner or joint venturer)
• the result of any disciplinary action taken against a gaming, bingo or casino licence, approval or authorisation held by you, outside Victoria
• the result of any disciplinary action taken against any non-gaming licence, approval, authorisation or registration, excluding matters that relate to your driver’s licence or motor vehicle registration, held by you, under any jurisdiction.

Please note: ‘any jurisdiction’ means any relevant legal or other authority, or territory, within or outside Australia. ‘Non-custodial traffic offences’ are traffic matters that resulted in a penalty other than a prison sentence or community based order.

2. You must not participate in gaming or the playing of bingo, other than as required in the course of your employment while on duty (including intervals for meals and other rostered breaks arising in the course of duty), or at any time when the gaming venue or bingo centre is closed to the public.

3. You must comply with the requirements of any notice under section 9A.1.17 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2003 to:

• provide, in accordance with directions in the notice, any information relevant to the holding of your gaming industry employee's licence that is specified in the notice, or
• produce, in accordance with directions in the notice, any records relevant to the holding of the licence that are specified in the notice and to permit examination of those records and the making of copies of them.

4. Every time you access the logic area of the gaming or monitoring equipment, or supervise a person gaining access to a logic area of this equipment, you must record in the log book kept inside the gaming or monitoring equipment cabinet, or secured in the immediate vicinity of the gaming or monitoring equipment, the:

• name and licence number of the person accessing the logic area
• date and time of accessing the logic area
• hard meter readings at the time of work
• details of the reason for accessing the logic area and what work was done
• name of the person being supervised (if applicable).

Please note: Logic area means a locked cabinet area (with its own locked door) that houses electronic components that have the potential to significantly influence the operation of the gaming machine.

Enquiries about this condition should be directed to the duty inspector for Gaming Licensing Inspections at the VGCCC on 1300 599 759 between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday.

4. Any other licence conditions imposed by the VGCCC and communicated to the licensee during the term of the licence

Please note: failure to comply with any condition of a gaming industry employee's licence may result in the VGCCC taking disciplinary action against the licensee.