2. Interpretation
In these Regulations—
“Accounts Department” means the Accounts Department established under regulation 12(3)(g);
“Assistant Credit Manager” means the person employed as such by a gaming operator;
“Assistant Gaming Manager” means the person described in regulation 13(1)(e);
“Board” means the Board of the Gaming Authority;
“Board Inspector” means a person employed by the Board as an inspector;
“Boxman” means a person described in regulation 13(1)(b);
“cage cashier” means a person employed as such by a gaming operator;
“Cage Supervisor” means a person employed as such by a gaming operator;
“cash document return” means the cash document return referred to in regulation 34(3);
“cash equivalent” means a travellers cheque, money order, certified cheque, cashiers' cheque or a voucher recording cash drawn against a credit card or charge card or a cheque issued by the gaming operator accepting it;
“cashiers cage” means the enclosed area in a gaming establishment from which cage cashiers carry out their functions;
“Cashiers Cage Department” means the Cashiers Cage Department established under regulation 12(3)(h);
“change booth” means a change booth described in regulation 34(6);
“change booth inventory” means a change booth inventory described in regulation 35(6);
“change person” means a person employed in a gaming establishment to possess an imprest inventory of coin created from change booth funds to be used for the even exchange with slot machine patrons of coin, currency and slot tokens;
“Chief Financial Officer” means the senior executive of the gaming operator with overall responsibility for its system of accounting and internal controls;
“Chief Operating Officer” means the senior executive of the gaming operator exercising the overall management or authority over all the operations of the gaming establi shment and the carrying out by employees of the gaming establishment of their duties;
“chip exchange form” means a chip exchange form described in regulation 22(17)(b);
“closer” means an original of a table inventory slip;
“coin currency issue slip” means the slip referred to in regulation 34(2);
“complimentary services” means the services described in regulation 10;
“compensation” means direct or indirect payment for services performed and any other function approved by the Board, salary, wages, bonuses, deferred payments, overtime and premium payments;
“count room” means the count room described in regulation 32(1);
“count supervisor” means a member of the count team authorised by the Accounting Department to supervise a count;
“count table” means the table in the count room used for counting and referred to in regulation 32(3);
“count team” means at least 6 employees approved by the Board for the conduct of the count of the contents of a drop box or drop bucket;
“Credit Committee” means a credit committee of the Credit Department;
“Credit Department” means the Credit Department established under regulation 12(3)(e);
“Credit Manager” means a person appointed as such by the gaming operator;
“credit meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device that continuously and automatically records coins due to a customer until such time as coins are paid by machine;
“credit slip” means a credit slip referred to in regulation 23;
“croupier” means a person described in regulation 13(1)(a);
“customer deposit receipt” means a customer deposit receipt referred to in regulation 24;
“Director of Gaming Accounting” means the Director of Gaming Accounting referred to in regulation 12(3)(g);
“Director of Security” means the Director of Security referred to in regulation 12(3)(f);
“Director of Surveillance” means the Director of Surveillance referred to in regulation 12(3)(a);
“drop box” means a drop box referred to in regulation 16;
“drop meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device that continuously and automatically counts the number of coins dropped into the machine's drop bucket;
“EPROM” means Electrical Programmable Read Only Memory as referred to in regulation 37;
“fill slip” means the fill slip referred to in regulation 22;
“gaming chips” mean the gaming chips described in the Gaming Equipment Regulations;
“Gaming Department” means the Gaming Department established under regulation 12(3)(c);
“gaming floor” means the area of the gaming establishment used for gaming;
“Gaming Shift Manager” means a person described in regulation 13(1)(d);
“Gaming Supervisor” is a reference to a person in a supervisory capacity and required to perform certain functions under these Regulations, including and any other function approved by the Board, Pit Bosses, Shift Managers, the Assistant Gaming Manager and the Manager;
“handle” means the total amount of coins or tokens placed into a slot machine;
“hopper” means the hopper referred to in regulation 36;
“hopper fill slip” has the meaning given to it in regulation 41;
“imprest basis” means the basis on which cashiers cage and change booth funds are replenished by exactly the amount of the net expenditures made from the funds and amounts received and of which a review of the expenditure is made by a higher authority before replenishment;
“incompatible function” means a function, for accounting and internal controls purposes, that places any person or department in a position to both perpetrate and conceal errors or irregularities in the normal course of his or her duties and anyone both recording transactions and having access to the relevant assets is in a position to perpetrate errors or irregularities and person's may have incompatible functions if such persons are members of departments which have supervisors who are not independent of each other;
“independent accountant” means a professional accountant suitably qualified and sufficiently independent to act in Saint Lucia as an auditor of a gaming operator or who would be sufficiently independent to so act if the relevant gaming operator licence was held by a company;
“in meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device that continuously and automatically counts the number of coins placed by patrons into the machine;
“Internal Audit Department” means the Internal Audit Department established under regulation 12(3)(b);
“Jackpot” means an amount of money to be paid to a patron as a result of a specific combination of characters indicated on the reels of a slot machine;
“Jackpot meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device that continuously and automatically counts the number of coins paid by the machine;
“Jackpot payout slip” means the Jackpot payout slip described in regulation 40;
“junket” has the meaning given to it in regulation 9;
“junket representative” has the meaning given to it in regulation 9(2);
“Main Bank” means the bank within the gaming establishment designated as such by the gaming operator;
“Main Slot Bank” means the Main Slot Bank described in regulation 34;
“Main Slot Bank Cashier” means the Main Slot Bank Cashier referred to in regulation 34(1);
“machine entry authorisation log” means the machine entry authorisation log referred to in regulation 36;
“marker” is a form made available to customers by a gaming operator to record credit allowed to such customers for the purpose of gaming which, when completed to bear the name of a bank, an amount, a date and a signature, will constitute a cheque;
“marker activity log” means the marker activity log referred to in regulation 27;
“Marker Bank” means the bank within the gaming establishment designated as such by the gaming operator;
“Marker Bank Cashier” means a person described as such in regulation 15;
“master game report” means a record of the computation of the win or loss for each gaming table, each game, and each shift;
“member of the Security Department” means any person who is a member of the Security Department described in regulation 12;
“name credit” has the meaning given to it in regulation 25;
“nominated member of the Security Department” is a member of the Security Department of a gaming operator with special responsibility for controlling access to keys referred to in regulations 32 and 36 whose name has been notified to the Board at least 30 days before acting in such capacity;
“opener” means the duplicate copy of a table inventory slip;
“out meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device, that continuously and automatically counts the number of coins automatically paid by the machine to the patron;
“patron cash deposit” means in amount of cash, cash equivalent, gaming chips or gaming plaques deposited with a gaming establishment by a patron for his or her subsequent use;
“Pit” means the area enclosed or encircled by an arrangement of gaming tables in which casino personnel administer and supervise the games played at the tables by the patrons located on the outside perimeter of the area;
“Pit Boss” means a person described in regulation 13(1)(c);
“Pit Clerk” means a person described in regulation 15(7);
“progressive slot machine” means a slot machine described in regulation 39(1);
“principal Act” means the Gaming Control Act;
“RAM” means Random Access Memory as referred to in regulation 37;
“refund slip” means a refund slip referred to in regulation 24;
“returned cheque” means a cheque returned by a bank in accordance with regulation 29;
“ROM” means Read Only Memory as referred to in regulation 37;
“Security Department” means the Security Department established under regulation 12(3)(f);
“shift” means either the normal daily work period of a group of employees administering and supervising the operations of table games, slot machines, and cashiers cage working in relay with another such succeeding or preceding group of employees;
“shift change” means the specific time, as approved by the Board during the day when all drop boxes attached to gaming tables are removed, expeditiously transported to the count room and replaced with empty ones;
“slot attendant” means a person described in regulation 13(2)(b);
“Slot Department” means the Slot Department established under regulation 12(3)(d);
“Slot Department Manager” means the person described in regulations 12(3)(d) and 13(2)(d);
“slot machine” means any mechanical, electrical or other device, contrivance or machine which upon insertion of a coin or token is available to play or operate, and may deliver or entitled the person playing or operating the machine to receive cash, whether the pay-off is made automatically from the machine or in any other manner;
“slot machine drop” means the amount of coins or tokens in a drop bucket;
“slot machine win” means the amount determined by subtracting hopper fills, other than initial hopper fills, and payouts from the slot machine drop;
“slot mechanic” means a person described in regulation 13(2)(a);
“slot supervisor” means a person described as such in regulation 13(2)(c);
“slug” means a metal disc having no cash value or a foreign, or otherwise improper, coin or token;
“slug report” means the 3 part form described in regulation 43(12)(g);
“Surveillance Department” means the Surveillance Department established under regulation 12(3)(a);
“surveillance log” means the surveillance log described in regulation 11;
“table game drop” means the sum of the total amounts of currency, coin, promotional chips, match play coupons, and the total amounts recorded on name credits removed from a drop box;
“table game win or loss” is determined by adding the amount of cash, coin, promotional chips, the amount recorded on the closer, and the total of amounts recorded on match play coupons, credits and name credits, removed from a drop box and subtracting the amount recorded on the opener and the total of the amounts recorded on fills removed from a drop box;
“table inventory slip” means the slip upon which each table inventory is recorded at the end of each shift and serves as the record of each table inventory at the beginning of the next succeeding shift;
“theoretical slot machine payout percentage” means the sum of the number of coins expected to be paid out by a slot machine automatically and the number of coins expected to be paid out manually as a result of Jackpots divided by an assumed handle and multiplied by 100;
“tip box” means the tip box referred to in regulation 19;
“token” is as described in the Gaming Equipment Regulations 2001 and except where specifically referred to, tokens shall be regarded as synonymous with “coins” in these Regulations;
“total games played meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device that continuously and automatically records the number of games played by patrons on the machine;
“win meter” means a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device visible from the front of the machine that advises a player of the number of coins that have been paid to him or her by the machine upon hitting a winning combination.