Queensland Consolidated Acts

GAMING MACHINE ACT 1991 - SECT 5

For the purposes of this Act—

(a) the following persons are associates of a person—

(i) the person's spouse;

(ii) a parent or remoter lineal ancestor, son, daughter or remoter issue, brother or sister of the person;

(iii) any partner of the person;

(iv) any body corporate of which the person is an executive officer;

(v) where the person is a body corporate—an executive officer of the body corporate;

(vi) a person who, in the previous year, has provided to the first person advice for fee or reward in relation to—

(A) gaming; or

(B) the conduct of gaming; or

(C) the manufacture, assembly, sale, supply, installation, alteration, obtaining, possession, operation, use, adjustment, maintenance, repair or testing of gaming equipment;

(vii) any employee or employer of the person;

(viii) any officer or employee of any body corporate of which the person is an officer or employee;

(ix) any employee of an individual of whom the person is an employee;

(x) any body corporate whose executive officers are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the person, or where the person is a body corporate, of the executive officers of that body corporate;

(xi) any body corporate in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of which, or of the executive officers of which, the person is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act;

(xii) any body corporate in which the person has a substantial holding;

(xiii) if the person is a body corporate—a person who has a substantial holding in the body corporate;

(xiv) any person who is named in an affidavit forwarded or lodged by the person under section 92, 115, 118, 130, 154 or 210;

(xv) any person who is because of paragraph (a), an associate of any other person who is an associate of the person (including a person who is an associate of the person by another application or other applications of paragraph (a)); and

(b) a person is taken to have a substantial holding in a body corporate if the person, alone or together with any associate or associates of the person, is in a position to control not less than 5% of the voting power in the body corporate or holds interests in not less than 5% of the issued shares in the body corporate.