The Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club Incorporated is a non-profit registered Incorporated Society that provides a range of amenities for its members. The Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club Incorporated is licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs to operate gaming machines. Grants from the proceeds of the gaming machines can only be approved if:
Gaming machine funds can only be used for an authorised purpose. Generally this means a charitable or sporting purpose that will benefit a section of the community in a non-commercial sense.
The Department of Internal Affairs has provided the following examples of non-authorised purposes in terms of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1977:
| Department of Internal Affairs considers the following to be examples of purposes which would not be valid | Department of Internal Affairs considers the following to be examples of purposes which in many cases are unlikely to be valid |
| • Purchase or subsidy of alcohol, including the provision of inventory for a club or the like., • Stake money for any type of race; • Payment of legal expenses incurred by a site operator., • Construction or alteration work to bar areas of gaming machine site (other than allowable gaming machine installation expenses); • Maintenance or provision of bar facilities; • Funding for advertising or marketing schemes for operator sites; • Costs associated with staging 'after match' functions for sporting groups. Groups. |
• A purpose which will result in a clear commercial gain (i.e. more than incidental) for any individual or organisation; • Grants to further the activities of professional sportspersons (except where such a grant is made for any coaching, training or development purpose for amateur sport or community organisation); • A grant to any individual sports person unless it is made to, and administered by, an incorporated sporting body to which the individual is affiliated; • Lobbying groups other than for party political purposes or purposes that benefit the community; • Family reunions; • Events or trips which are predominantly social in nature; • Purchase or subsidy of vehicles for purposes associated with social functions; • Prizes for sporting events (except trophies, or modest non-cash prizes for use in genuine community sporting events – ‘modest’ will be determined by the size of the event concerned. |
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