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National Gambling Act, 2004 (Act No. 7 of 2004)

Chapter 2 : National Gambling Policy

Part D : Registration and certification of machines and devices

27. National central electronic monitoring system

 

1) The board must establish and maintain a national central electronic monitoring system capable of-
a) detecting and monitoring significant events associated with any limited pay-out machine that is made available for play in the Republic; and
b) analysing and reporting that data in accordance with the prescribed requirements.

 

2) The board may contract with any person to supply any or all of the products or services required to fulfill its obligations in terms of subsection (1), but any such contractor must not be a person who, or firm that, is disqualified as a licensee in terms of section 50.

 

3) The Minister may, in consultation with the Council and by regulation made in accordance with section 87, prescribe-
a) standards for-
i) the operation of the national electronic monitoring system; and
ii) the collection and analysis of data through that system;
b) the frequency and nature of reports to be produced by the board in respect of the operation of the system;
c) other matters related to the functioning of the national central electronic monitoring system.

 

4) Every limited pay-out machine that is made available for play must be electronically linked to the national central electronic monitoring system, and the licensee of that machine must pay the prescribed monitoring fees in relation to that machine.

 

5) The national central electronic monitoring system must allow-
a) the provincial licensing authority of each province access to all data on the system that originated in that province, without charge by the board; and
b) the licensee of each limited pay-out machine linked to the system access to prescribed data on the system that originated from that machine.

 

6) A contravention of subsection (4) is a breach of licence, subject to administrative sanctions in terms of this Act or the applicable provincial law.