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The Deregulation (Gaming Machines and Betting Office Facilities) Order 1996

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Relaxation of restrictions on conduct of licensed betting offices

4.—(1) Schedule 4 to the 1963 Act(1) (Rules for licensed betting offices) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1 (prohibition of use of licensed betting office for any purpose other than the effecting of betting transactions) after “prescribed, and” there shall be inserted “, subject to paragraphs 10A to 10C of this Schedule,”.

(3) After paragraph 10 there shall be inserted—

10A.  Machines to which Part III of the Gaming Act 1968 (gaming machines) applies may be used on the licensed premises, but only if—

(a)they are machines in respect of which the conditions mentioned in section 34(5A) of the Gaming Act 1968 are observed (cash prizes only), and

(b)they do not exceed two in number.

10B.  Publications may be sold on the licensed premises, but only if they are racing periodicals or specialist betting publications.

10C.  The licensed premises may be used for—

(a)the sale of tickets in any lottery other than—

(i)a private lottery within the meaning of the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976, or

(ii)a lottery the sale of tickets in which on the licensed premises is otherwise prohibited,

(b)the collection of amounts payable by way of winnings in any lottery for the sale of whose tickets the premises may be used,

(c)the delivery of entry forms and stakes relating to competitions in which success depends to a substantial degree on the exercise of skill, and

(d)the collection of amounts payable by way of winnings in any such competition as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph..

(1)

Schedule 4 to the 1963 Act was amended by the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (Schedule 4) (Amendment) Orders 1986 (S.I. 1986/11) and 1995 (S.I. 1995/579).

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