2No special licence (as defined in section 21(2) of the [1981 c. 63.] Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981) may be granted for any period beginning on or after 1st May 1994.
3(1)Accordingly, that Act shall be amended as follows.
(2)In section 21, for the words following “force” in subsection (1) to the end of subsection (2) there is substituted— “a licence granted under this Part of this Act with respect to the premises.
(2)Such a licence shall be known as a gaming machine licence”.
(3)Section 21A (special licences) is omitted.
(4)In section 24—
(a)in subsection (3), the words from “but” to the end are omitted, and
(b)in subsection (4), the words “or there are special licences in force with respect to those machines” are omitted.
(5)In paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 (transfer of licences), in sub-paragraph (1), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted “transfer a gaming machine licence in respect of any premises to a successor in title to the interest in those premises of the person to whom the licence was granted”.
(6)Paragraph 11(2) of that Schedule is omitted.
(7)In paragraph 12 of that Schedule (display of licence), for “an ordinary licence” there is substituted “a gaming machine licence”.
(8)In paragraph 13(1) of that Schedule (labelling etc. of machines), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted “gaming machines provided on any premises in respect of which a gaming machine licence is in force”.
(9)In paragraph 18 of that Schedule (forfeiture), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted “those machines which are authorised by the gaming machine licence or licences produced to him”.
(10)Paragraph 4(2) below shall cease to have effect.
(11)This paragraph shall come into force on 1st May 1995.