Definitions

(a) 'Act' means... (a) 'Appellate Aulhority' means the State Government or such authority as may be appolnted by the State Government; (b) 'Auihorized Officer' means any person or persons appoinied by the State Government ior the purpose of the Act; (c) 'Online Game' means all or any games of chance or a combinaiion of skill and chance, including but n6t limited to Poker, Roulette, blackjack or any game, played with cards, dice or by means of any machine or instrument for money or money's worth, as may b€ prescribed from time to time; (d) 'Company' means a body corporate, and includes firm or other association of individuals duly con stiiuted and regisiered under the provisions of the Registration of Companies Act Sikkim 1961; (e) 'Government' means the Slate Government of Sikkim; (f) 'Gross Gaming Yield' means the total amount of all bets or stakes made, and the price of all chances sold, less the value of all winnings and prizes due, in the course of the Online Gaming during the period in question; (g) 'Instruments of Gaming' means and includes any article used or intended to be used as a subject, and accessory or means of gaming, any document used or intended to be used as a register or record or evidence of gaming, the proceeds of any gaming, and any winnings or prizes in money or otherwise distributed or intended to be distributed in respect of any gaming; (h) 'Licence' means a licence granted by the State Government under the provisions of the Act for the purpose of running Online Games and Sports Games, including its organization, management or promotion and negotiation or receipt of bets; (i) 'Licensee' means any person/company/firm who has been granted a licence to install and operate Online Games and Sports Games including installing and maintaining an Online Gaming server; (j) 'Online Gaming' means any gaming, where any player enters or may enter the game or takes or may take any step in the game or acquires or may acquire a chance in any lottery, by means of a telecommunication device including the negotiating or receiving of any bet by means of a telecommunication device; (k) 'Online Gaming Server' means any main frame computer or set of computers, installed or maintained by the Licensee, at a central location in the State that accepts, processes, stores and validates a lottery, wager/transaction and otherwise manages, monitors and controls the entire system; (l) 'Online Gaming Website' means the internet domain registration or URL address of the Licensee through which Online Gaming is conducted; (m) 'Penalty' means a fine imposed by the State Government or any authority for the breach or contravention of any of the rules made hereunder and on conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction; (n) 'Public Place' includes a place to which the public have or any permitted to have access, including any internet website, whether on payment or otherwise; (o) 'Sports Gaming' means games involving the prediction of the results of sporting events and placing a bet on the outcome, in part or in whole, of such sporting event; (p) 'State' means the State of Sikkim. (bb) "Authority" means and includes such body consisting of such officials for technical as well as administrative and legal as may be constituted by the State Government. (e) after the words and figure "Registration of Companies Act Sikkim 1961", the words "or the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act No. 1 of 1956) as the case may be" shall be inserted. (g) after the words "online gaming", the words "or Sport Gaming" shall be inserted. (k) for the word "lottery", the words "online gaming or Sport Gaming" shall be substituted. (n) after the letter and word "a lottery", the words "an online gaming or Sport Gaming" shall be substituted. (na) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act. (o) after clause (o), the following new clause shall be inserted, namely:- "(oo) There shall be constituted a Fund to be called a Special Development Fund where the fees as will be realised under the Act and shall be parked for its utilization including utilization for the purpose ancillary or related to the object of realisation of the fee".