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Cashier’s cage

Gaming Control (Licensed Gaming Premises) (Accounting And Internal Control) Regulations, reg. 14 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) In each Casino there shall be on or immediately adjacent to the gaming floor a physical structure known as the cashier’s cage (“cage”) to house the cashiers and to serve as the central location on the casino for the following– (a) the custody of the cage inventory comprising currency, including patron’s deposits, coins, patron cheques, markers, gaming chips, plaques, forms, documents and records 158 Gaming Control normally associated with the operation of a cage; (b) the approval, exchange, redemption, and consolidation of patron cheques and markers for the purpose of gaming in conformity with these Regulations; (c) the receipt, distribution, and redemption of gaming chips and plaques in conformity with these Regulations; and (d) such other functions normally associated with the operations of a cage. (2) The Casino Licensee shall have a reserve cash bankroll in addition to the imprest funds normally maintained by the cashier’s cage, on hand in the cashier’s cage or readily available to the cashier’s cage at the opening of every shift in a minimum amount approved by the Board. (3) The cage shall be designed and construed to provide maximum security including, at a minimum, the following– (a) a fully enclosed structure except for openings through which items such as gaming chips and plaques, patrons cheques and markers, cash, records, and documents can be passed to service the public, gaming tables and slot (b) manually triggered silent alarm systems connected directly to the monitoring rooms of the closed circuit television system and the Security Department Office; (c) double door entry and exit system that will not permit a person to pass through the second Gaming Control 159 door until the first door is security locked, in addition– (i) the first door adjacent to the casino floor of the double door entry and exit system shall be controlled by the Casino Security Department; (ii) the second door of the double door entry and exit system should be controlled by (iii) the system shall have closed circuit television coverage which shall be monitored by the Casino Security Department or Surveillance Department; (iv) any entrance to the cage that is not a double door entry and exit system shall be an alarmed emergency exit door only; (d) separate locks on each door of the double door entry and exit system, the keys (or other means of opening) of which shall be different from each other. (4) Each Casino Licensee shall place on file with the Board the names of all persons authorised to enter the cage, those who possess the combination or the keys or who control the mechanism to open the locks securing the entrance to the cage, and those who possess the ability to operate the alarm systems.
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