{"id":777011219,"date":"2023-11-17T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011219"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:29:45","slug":"new-zealands-porirua-council-approves-sinking-lid-policy-for-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-zealands-porirua-council-approves-sinking-lid-policy-for-slots","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Porirua Council approves sinking lid policy for slots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Porirua City Council has banned the introduction of new machines and venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand.- Councillors in Porirua have approved<strong>\u00a0a new sinking lid gambling policy<\/strong>, banning the establishment of new gaming machines and venues in an effort to reduce the city&#8217;s spending on gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy limits the number of gaming machines and prevents new class 4 (non-casino). According to News Talk ZB, the decision received community input, with 83 per cent of the 89 submissions supporting the approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Porirua joins other districts that have taken similar measures. In September,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-zealands-wairarapa-councils-consider-new-gambling-restrictions\" target=\"_blank\">the councils of Carterton and Masterton<\/a>, in Wairarapa, proposed a prohibition on gambling machine venues in the most economically disadvantaged areas outside of main town centres, a ban on new TABs (Totalisator Agency Boards) and heightened restrictions on the introduction of new machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, councillors in the Waimate District\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-zealands-waimate-council-approves-sinking-lid-policy-for-slots\" target=\"_blank\">approved a sinking lid policy<\/a>, which replaces the previous Gambling Venue Policy 2018 and TAB Board Venue Policy 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, Porirua has one of the country&#8217;s highest expenditures per gambling machine. With 10 existing venues housing 156 pokie machines, the accumulated profit from the last financial year reached NZ$15.8m, a NZ$2m increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porirua City Council has banned the introduction of new machines and venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777011323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Porirua City Council has implemented a 'sinking lid' gambling policy, prohibiting new gaming machines and venues, specifically targeting Class 4 non-casino operations. This decision, supported by community input, aligns Porirua with other New Zealand districts like Carterton, Masterton, and Waimate, which have adopted similar restrictive measures. The policy aims to curb the city's high gambling expenditure, which saw NZ$15.8m profit from 156 pokie machines in the last financial year.","focusai_entities":"Porirua City Council, Carterton Council, Masterton Council, Waimate District Council, News Talk ZB, TABs","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Porirua, Carterton, Masterton, Wairarapa, Waimate District","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Trend Impact","query":"What are the broader implications of these localized 'sinking lid' policies for national iGaming regulatory frameworks and the potential for a unified New Zealand gambling policy?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift","query":"How might existing Class 4 operators in affected districts adapt their business models and investment strategies given the inability to expand their machine or venue footprint?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777011219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777011219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040944,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011219\/revisions\/777040944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777011323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}