Abstract

The Uganda Standard specifies requirements governing finite scratch ticket and pull-tab systems necessary to achieve certification when interfaced to player terminals, for communicating mandatory security events and game information: credit issuance: coins or tokens accepted via approved coin acceptors; currency notes (bills) accepted via approved bill validators; and approved ticket/voucher (items) accepted via approved bill/ticket/voucher validators; or player account cards (cashless); credit redemption: coins or tokens paid by approved hoppers; handpays; ticket/voucher (items) paid by approved ticket/voucher printers; or player account cards (cashless). This standard does not apply to requirements for any other form of monetary transaction. It does not apply to advanced bi-directional communication protocols [that is, Electronic Financial Transaction, Advanced Financial Transaction, bonusing, promotional, system based progressives, features that utilize a Random Number Generator (RNG), among others] that support credit transfer between the gaming device. This standard only supports one-way communication of events originated at the gaming device level to the Monitoring and Control Systems (MCS) with the exception of the ticket/voucher validation system requirements that are incorporated within Clause 5. This standard does not exclude gaming devices that operate with player account cashless transactions for the purpose of communicating mandatory security events and electronic meters. This infers that all relevant monetary transactions at the Electronic Gaming Devices (EGD) level are handled via electronic transfer through a secure communication protocol. This standard was published on 2024-08-06.