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Volume 49, No. 13

B.C. Reg. 183/2006

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 4, 2006

B.C. Reg. 183/2006, deposited June 23, 2006, pursuant to the PUBLIC SAFETY AND SOLICITOR GENERAL STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 2006 [Section 72] and the GAMING CONTROL ACT [Section 105]. Order in Council 454/2006, approved and ordered June 22, 2006.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) sections 1 to 16 of the Public Safety and Solicitor General Statutes Amendment Act, 2006, S.B.C. 2006, c. 28, are brought into force, and

(

b) the Gaming Control Regulation, B.C. Reg. 208/2002, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— J. LES, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General; C. HANSEN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE

Section 2 of the Gaming Control Regulations, B.C. Reg 208/2002, is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by striking out "financial interest" and

substituting "interest",

(

b) in subsection (2) (

f) by striking out "$50 000 and" and substituting "$50 000 or", and

(

c) in subsection (2) by adding the following paragraph:

(

g) interested parties, comprised of persons who, in the opinion of the general manager, are parties to an agreement or arrangement the purpose of which is to require them to act in concert with respect to their direct or indirect interests in a gaming licensee, registrant or applicant.

2 The following

section is added:

Prescribed class of gaming facility

2.1 For the purposes of the definition of "gaming facility" in

section 1 of the Act,

community gaming centers that are permanent facilities primarily for paper and electronic bingo games and other lottery schemes, but that also include at least one slot machine, are prescribed as a class of gaming facility.

Section 3 is amended

(

a) in paragraph (

a) by striking out " ancillary casino services " and substituting

" ancillary services " and by adding ", commercial bingo halls and community gaming centres" after "casino gaming facilities", and

(

b) by adding the following paragraph:

(

c) automated banking services , comprised of automated banking services provided at a gaming facility by an institution that is not a savings institution.

Section 5 is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (1) (

g) and substituting the following:

(

g) volunteer bingo floorworkers , comprised of individuals who are volunteers at a bingo facility and who circulate among the players to provide services such as distributing bingo supplies and collecting money from players;

, and

(

b) in subsection (2) by adding the following paragraph:

(

c) horse racing personnel , comprised of persons who are required to be licensed by rules established under

Part 7 of the Act."

Section 8 (2) is amended by striking out "73,".

Section 10 is repealed and the following substituted:

Definition for the Act of "adequate community input"

10 The expression "adequate community input" , used in

section 19 (2) of the Act, means comments, information and representations received, from persons who reside in the community or are representative of organizations in the community, by the host local government, after the host local government has both

(

a) given public notice within the community about the proposal and the particulars of the proposal, and

(

b) provided an opportunity for the residents and representatives to provide comments, information and representations concerning the proposal, in the form of

(

i) one or more public hearings or public meetings,

(ii) a referendum of the residents, or

(iii) an alternative form of opportunity, if any, approved in writing by the general manager.

Section 11 is repealed.

Section 12 (

d) is amended by adding ", other than

teletheatres," after "adding horse racing".

Section 12.1 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by repealing the definition of "host local

government" and by adding the following definition:

"highway" means highway as defined in

section 1 of the Transportation Act ; ,

(

b) in subsection (2) (

a) by striking out "the municipalities, regional districts and first nations with which it must consult" and substituting

"the potentially affected local governments",

(

c) in subsection (4) by striking out "A municipality, regional district or first nation" and substituting "A potentially affected local government",

(

d) in subsection (7) by striking out "municipality, regional district or first nation" in both places and substituting "potentially affected local government", and

(

e) in subsection (8) by striking out "municipality, regional district and first nation" and substituting "potentially affected local government".

Section 13 is amended

(

a) by striking out "municipality, regional district or first nation that has the authority referred to in

section 19 (1) (

a) of the Act" and substituting "host local government",

(

b) in paragraph (

a) by striking out "municipality, regional district or first nation" and substituting "host local government",

(

c) in paragraph (

c) by striking out "municipality, regional district or first nation" and substituting "host local government", and

(

d) in paragraph (

d) by striking out "municipalities, regional districts and first nations" and substituting "potentially affected local governments".

Section 13.1 is repealed and the following substituted:

Limit on number of slot machines

13.1 The lottery corporation must get approval from the host local government before increasing the number of slot machines at a gaming facility beyond a maximum limit presently established by that host local government in a form referred to in

section 13 (a).

Section 27 is repealed and the following substituted:

Background investigation for personnel

27 For the purposes of

section 55 (

b) of the Act, the category branch employees is prescribed, comprised of all employees of the branch.

Section 29 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1), by adding the following paragraph:

(b.1) community gaming centre services providers, comprised of gaming services providers that provide gaming services at community gaming centres; ,

(

b) in subsection (1) by repealing paragraph (m),

(

c) in subsection (2) by repealing paragraph (

d) and substituting the following:

(

d) senior officials , comprised of each of the 5 highest paid officers of a gaming services provider and each individual who, whether or not among those 5 highest paid officers,

(

i) is the chair or a vice chair of the board of directors or the president, a vice president, the secretary, the treasurer or the general manager of the gaming services provider, or

(ii) performs functions of the gaming services provider similar to those normally performed by an individual occupying any of the offices described in subparagraph (i);

(

e) lottery corporation officials, comprised of individuals appointed or employed in senior capacities with the lottery corporation;

(

f) lottery corporation employees, comprised of individuals who are employees of the lottery corporation and who

(

i) are involved in the conduct, management or operation of gaming,

(ii) require access to gaming facilities to perform their duties,

(iii) use or work with the electronic systems that support the conduct, management or operation of gaming, or

(iv) purchase gaming supplies or develop or test gaming supplies or lottery schemes, or assist with any of these activities;

(

g) horse racing personnel, comprised of persons who are required to be licensed by rules established under

Part 7 of the Act;

(

h) other employees, comprised of individuals who are gaming workers but who are not in any of the other classes set out in this subsection.

Section 31 (2) is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(b.1) community gaming centre services providers, $2 000;

Section 33 is repealed.

Section 34 is amended

(

a) in paragraph (

d) by striking out "if the provider is a

casino service provider or a bingo service provider, ",

(

b) in paragraph (

i) by adding "if the provider is a casino services provider, a bingo services provider or a community gaming centre services provider," at the beginning of the paragraph, and

(

c) by striking out "and" at the end of paragraph (

i) and adding the following paragraphs:

(

k) obey all applicable public interest standards established by the general manger under

section 27 (2) of the Act,

(

l) ensure that a person that is, under

section 1 (1) of the Act, an associate of the gaming services provider is approved by the general manager as required under the Act,

(

m) sell lottery tickets to minors only in the circumstances set out in

section 37 (

a) and allow a minor to sell raffle tickets on its behalf only in the circumstances set out in

section 37 (b),

(

n) ensure that minors are not present at a gaming facility or at a licensed gaming event that the gaming services provider operates, unless the presence of minors is allowed under

section 38,

(

o) report to the general manager any change in the gaming services provider's name or address,

(

p) retain in the gaming facility all official identification cards issued to gaming workers who are employees for that facility and who are off duty,

(

q) submit to the general manager, within 30 days after the expiry of a month in which one or more registered employees ceased employment with the provider,

(

i) a list of those former employees for that month, and

(ii) if applicable, the official identification cards of those former employees,

(

r) comply with

section 77 (1) of the Act, and

(

s) report to the general manager any suspension, cancellation or refusal of licensing, registration or renewal, in another jurisdiction, of the gaming services provider or of the officers, directors or associates of the gaming services provider.

Section 38 (

b) is repealed.

Section 39 is amended

(

a) by renumbering the

section as

section 39 (1),

(

b) in paragraph (1) (

a) by striking out "casino",

(

c) in paragraph (1) (

b) by striking out "casino",

(

d) by repealing paragraphs (1) (

c) and (d), and

(

e) by adding the following subsection:

(2) Despite subsection (1) (b), a gaming worker

(

a) is not disqualified from purchasing lottery tickets, and

(

b) is not disqualified from participation in bingo gaming during times when he or she is not required to carry out the duties of his or her employment.

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