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Procedure for distributing gaining chips, coins and plaques to gaming tables

Gaming Control (Licensed Gaming Premises) (Accounting And Internal Control) Regulations, reg. 22 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) A request for fill (“Request”) shall be prepared by a Casino Supervisor to authorise the preparation of a fill slip (“Fill”) for the distribution of gaming chips, coins and plaques to gaming tables. The request shall be prepared in a duplicate form and restricted to Casino Supervisors. 170 Gaming Control (2) On the original and duplicate of the request, the following information, at a minimum, shall be recorded– (a) the date, time, and shift of preparation; (b) the denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques to be distributed to the gaming tables; (c) the total amount of each denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques to be distributed to the gaming tables; (d) the game and table number to which the gaming chips, coins or plaques are to be distributed; (e) the signature of the Casino Supervisor; and (f) the signature of the Security Department Member. (3) After preparation of the request, the original of such request shall be transported directly to the Cashier’s Cage. (4) The duplicate copy of the request shall be placed by the Croupier in public view on the gaming table to which the gaming chips, coins or plaques are to be received. Such duplicate copy shall not be removed until the chips, coins and plaques are received at which time the request and fill are deposited in the drop box. (5) A fill shall be prepared by a fill bank cashier whenever gaming chips, coins or plaques are distributed to the gaming tables from the Cashier’s Cage. (6) Fills shall be serially pre-numbered forms, and each series of fills shall be used in sequential order, and the series numbers of all fills received by a casino shall be accounted for by employees with no incompatible functions. All the originals Gaming Control 171 and duplicates of void fills shall be marked “VOID” and shall require the signature of the preparer. (7) The following procedures and requirements shall be observed with regard to fills– (a) each series of fills shall be in triplicate form to be kept in a locked dispenser that will permit an individual slip in the series and its copies to be written upon simultaneously while still located in the dispenser, and that will discharge the original and duplicate while the triplicate remains in a continuous, unbroken form in the dispenser; (b) access to the triplicate copy of the form shall be maintained and controlled at all times by employee responsible for controlling and accounting for the unused supply of fills, placing fills in the dispensers and removing from the dispensers, each day, the triplicate copies remaining therein. These employees shall have no incompatible functions. (8) On the original, duplicate and triplicate copies of the fill, the preparer shall record, at a minimum, the following information– (a) the denomination of the gaming chips, coins or plaques being distributed; (b) the total amount of each denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques being distributed; (c) the total amount of all denominations of gaming chips, coins or plaques being distributed; 172 Gaming Control (d) the game and table number to which the gaming chips, coins or plaques are being distributed; (e) the date and shift during which the distribution of gaming chips, coins or plaques occurs; and (f) the signature of the preparer. (9) Upon preparation, the time of preparation of the fill shall be recorded, at a minimum, on the original and the duplicate. (10) All gaming chips, coins or plaques distributed to the gaming tables from the Cashier’s Cage shall be transported directly to the gaming tables from the Cashier’s Cage by a Security Department member who shall agree the request to the fill and sign the original of the request, maintained at the Cashier’s Cage, before transporting the gaming chips, coins or plaques and the original and duplicate of the fill for signature. (11) Signatures attesting to the accuracy of the information contained on the original and duplicate of the fills shall be, at a minimum, of the following personnel at the following times– (a) the fill bank cashier upon preparation; (b) the Security Department member transporting the gaming chips, coins or plaques to the gaming table upon receipt from the cashier of gaming chips, coin or plaques to the gaming table upon receipt from the cashier of gaming chips, coins or plaques to be transported; (c) the croupier assigned to the gaming table upon receipt at such table from the Security Department member of gaming chips, coins or plaques at such table; and Gaming Control 173 (d) the Casino Supervisor assigned to the gaming table upon receipt of the gaming chips, coins or plaques at such table. (12) Upon meeting the signature requirements as described in subregulation (11) above, the Security Department Member that transported the gaming chips, coins or plaques and the original and duplicate copies of the fill to the table, shall observe the immediate placement by the croupier of the duplicate fill and duplicate request in the drop box attached to the gaming table to which the gaming chips, coins or plaques were transported and return the original fill to the fill bank where the original fill and request shall be maintained together and controlled by employees independent of the Casino Department. (13) The original and duplicate “void” fills, the original request and the original fill, maintained and controlled in conformity with subregulation (12) above, shall be forwarded to– (a) the count team for agreement with the duplicate copy of the fill and duplicate copy of the request removed from the drop box after which the original and duplicate copy of the request and the original and duplicate copy of the fill shall be forwarded to the Accounting Department for agreement, on a daily basis, with the triplicate; or (b) the Accounting Department for agreement, on a daily basis, with the duplicate fill and duplicate copy of the request removed from the drop box and the triplicate.
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