Bill 92 explained in plain English
Ensuring Local Voices in New Casino Gambling Development Act, 2013
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Bill 92 amends the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act, 1999 to require the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to follow specific regulatory steps, including local approval processes, before establishing new casinos or charity casinos, and excludes expansions from these requirements.
This bill, known as the Ensuring Local Voices in New Casino Gambling Development Act, 2013, amends the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act, 1999. It requires that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) follow specific steps and meet certain conditions, as outlined in provincial regulations, before authorizing the establishment of a new casino or charity casino. These steps and conditions are related to obtaining local approval, such as through a referendum, for the establishment of a casino or charity casino. The bill also specifies that these requirements do not apply to the expansion of an existing casino or charity casino at the same location. The bill comes into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Amends the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act, 1999.
- Adds new requirements for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) before it can authorize the establishment of a new casino or charity casino.
- Specifies that the OLGC must take steps and meet conditions outlined in provincial regulations before authorizing a new casino or charity casino.
- States that these requirements do not apply to the expansion of an existing casino or charity casino at the same location.
- Defines "casino", "charity casino", "game of chance", "Regulation", and "slot machine facility" for the purposes of this section of the Act.
- The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC)
- Municipalities
- First Nations reserves
- Electors in municipalities
- Members of First Nation councils
- Casino operators
- Charity casino operators
- The OLGC has an obligation to follow specific regulatory steps and meet conditions before authorizing the establishment of a new casino or charity casino.
- The bill establishes a process related to local approval for new casinos and charity casinos.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific steps and conditions that the Corporation must take and meet are referred to as being specified "in the Regulation," and the bill text does not detail what these steps and conditions are beyond the general explanation that they relate to local approval. The bill specifies which version of the Regulation is referenced (Ontario Regulation 347/00, excluding subsection 4(5), as it read on January 1, 2003).
- The bill does not specify who, within a First Nation, must approve the establishment of a charity casino, only referencing "members of the council" as a potential group.
- The bill does not define "referendum" or the specific process for obtaining local approval beyond stating that it may be done by referendum.
Adds conditions that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation must meet before authorizing a new casino or charity casino, including taking steps and meeting conditions specified in regulations, which are understood to involve local approval processes. Expansions of existing casinos are exempted from these new requirements.
Source: Section 12
The new requirements for establishing a casino or charity casino are based on steps and conditions specified in this regulation, with an exclusion for subsection 4(5), as it read on January 1, 2003.
Source: Section 12 (4)
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