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Nova Zelândia – O acordo do cassino em Auckland aumentará os gastos com cassino em 2.3 por cento

Forecasts by the New Zealand Health Ministry claim that New Zealanders will gamble more over the next few years with casino spend set to grow by 2.3 per cent by 2016.

Substantial increases in SkyCity’s gaming offer in Auckland where it is being offered more slots and table games in exchange for building a new convention centre in the city are seen as being key to the predicted increase.

SkyCity gastará NZ$ 363.5 milhões para construir o centro de conferências e receberá 230 slots extras aos 1,647 existentes, juntamente com 40 novas mesas, elevando o total de mesas para 150, bem como para 240 multijogadores. O acordo aumentará os slots em todo o país em 8.2% e as mesas em 20%.

The study also forecasts that sports betting through the Totalisator Agency Board will grow by 6.6 per cent by 2016 whilst spend on lottery games will grow by eight per cent.

The study forecasts that spend on machine games in pubs and clubs, the largest sector of the gambling market, will fall slightly over the next three years from US$854m in 2012 to US$849m in 2016.

Como parte do acordo, a SkyCity introduzirá novas medidas de prevenção de problemas de jogo com melhores métodos de identificação de potenciais jogadores problemáticos, sistemas voluntários de pré-compromisso para limitar o gasto ou o tempo de jogo e duplicando o número de especialistas em responsabilidade do anfitrião.

SkyCity originally asked for a lot more in exchange for the building of the convention centre including lowering the age of gambling consent to 18, lower rates of taxation and the approval of internet gambling.

In response to the publication of various documents relating to the deal, Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei, said: “Documents released by MBIE today show that SkyCity had the National Government over a barrel from the start because of its decision to rule out other tenders. The National Government put all its negotiating eggs in one basket, SkyCity knew that and squeezed them for every possible advantage they could gain. They called the shots and maximised every opportunity. SkyCity were far better negotiators and knew how to drag out the process to extract every possible win.”

MPs voted in favour of the SkyCity bill in Parliament, with the legislation passing 61 votes to 59. The bill must now go before a select committee and then in front of Parliament later in 2013 for its second reading.

Atualmente na Nova Zelândia, existem 2,800 máquinas de jogos e 200 mesas de jogos, com mais de 1,600 máquinas e mais de 100 mesas no SkyCity Auckland.