Article 181.
| Article of Order | General nature of offence | Mode of prosecution | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3(4) | Using premises for betting. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 4(1) | Resorting to premises used for betting. | Summary | Level 3. |
| 4(2) | Failure to give name and address to constable, etc. | Summary | Level 1. |
| 5(1) | Betting in streets and public places. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| 6 | Carrying on business, etc., as a bookmaker without a bookmaker's licence. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 9 | Licensed bookmaker carrying on business, etc., in premises without a bookmaking office licence. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 31(2) | Opening licensed office for business on prohibited days. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 32(9) | Contravention of provisions for conduct of licensed office. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 32(11) | Advertising licensed office. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 33 | Employment of agents. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 34(1) | Employment of disqualified persons. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 35(2) | Failure to leave licensed office when so requested. | Summary | Level 3. |
| 36(4) | Bookmaking on tracks without a track betting licence or in contravention of regulations, betting on different sport from that taking place on the track. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 41(3) | Failure to surrender track betting licence after cancellation. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| 42(5) | Failure to surrender track betting licence after revocation. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| 43(2) | Contravention of regulations relating to licensed tracks. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 44(4) | Carrying on pool betting business otherwise than by totalisator or on licensed track. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 46(2) | Excessive charge for admission to licensed track. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 48(2) | Betting on tracks on prohibited days. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 49(2) | Occupiers of tracks having interest in bookmaking on the track. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 50(3) | Admitting a person under 18 into, or allowing such a person to be in, a licensed office. | Summary | Level 3. |
| 50(6) | Failure to produce a contract of apprenticeship to a constable. | Summary | Level 2. |
| 51(1) | Betting with persons under 18[F1 or, as the case may be, 16]. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 51(2) | Person under 18[F1 or, as the case may be, 16] not allowed to bet. | Summary | Level 3. |
| 51(5) | Application of offence under Article 50(6). | As for offence under Article 50(6) | As for offence under Article 50(6). |
| 52(1) | Sending betting circulars to persons under 18[F1 or, as the case may be, 16]. | Summary | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 58(1) | Gaming in streets and public places. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| 59(1) | Organising or managing prohibited gaming, charging for gaming or levying stakes on winnings. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 59(3) | Allowing or letting premises, etc., for prohibited gaming, etc. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 78(1) | Failure to comply with Article 75 or 76 in relation to bingo club premises. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 78(2) | Failure to comply with Article 75 or 76 in relation to gaming on bingo club premises. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 81(1) | Supplying gaming machine without a gaming machine certificate or permit. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 81(4) | Maintaining the mechanism of a gaming machine without a gaming machine certificate or permit. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 82(5) | Supplying, etc., gaming machine in contravention of regulations. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 95(2) | Allowing gaming machine on prohibited premises. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 95(3) | Allowing gaming machine supplied by unauthorised supplier to be used for gaming. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 95(5) | Supplying gaming machine for use on prohibited premises. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 106(8) | Contravention of provisions regulating gaming machines in registered clubs. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 106(10) | Supplying gaming machine for use in contravention of Article 106. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 6 months or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 108(11) | Contravention of provisions regulating gaming machines in certain premises. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 108(12) | Contravention of provisions regulating gaming machines in bingo clubs. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 108(14) | Supplying gaming machine for use in contravention of Article 108. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 120(1) | Breach of conditions of amusement permit. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 122(6) | Contravention of provisions regulating gaming machines at exempt entertainments. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 122(8) | Supplying gaming machine for use in contravention of Article 122. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 123(3) | Unauthorised person removing money from a gaming machine. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 124(2) | Supplying or maintaining gaming machine in contravention of regulations. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 124(3) | Using gaming machine in contravention of regulations. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 124(4) | Contravening regulations relating to use of gaming machines. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| [F2124A(1). | Inviting, etc. person under 18 to play gaming machine | Summary. | Level 5 or imprisonment for 6 months or both.] |
| 126(12) | Organising or managing gaming at entertainment in contravention of Article 126. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 126(14) | Allowing or letting premises, etc., for gaming in contravention of Article 126. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 130(1) | Advertising gaming. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 132(1) | General lottery offences. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 133(6) | Contravention of conditions relating to small lotteries. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 134(2) | Contravention of conditions relating to private lotteries. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 137(20) | Obstructing officers of a district council. | Summary | Level 3. |
| 139(1) | Contravention of requirements relating to societies' lotteries. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 139(2) | Making a false return. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 140 | Acting as lottery consultant without a lottery certificate. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 153(7) | Contravention of conditions relating to amusements with prizes at exempt entertainments. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 154(5) | Contravention of conditions relating to amusements with prizes at certain other places. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 166(1) | Breach of conditions of pleasure permit. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 168(3) | Conducting prize competitions. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 169 | Cheating. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
| 180(2) | Failure to admit constable to premises for inspection, etc., failing to answer questions or giving false answers. | Summary | Level 4. |
| 185(1) | Failure to comply with court order to deliver licence, certificate or permit to court. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| Schedule 5 para. 6(2) | Failure to comply with court order to deposit bookmaking office licence with court. | Summary | Level 4 or imprisonment for 3 months or both. |
| Schedule 8 para. 11(2) | Obstructing officers of Department, failing to give information or giving false information. | Summary | Level 3. |
| Schedule 8 para. 16 | Contravening provisions relating to totalisators. | (a)Indictment (b)Summary | (a)A fine or imprisonment for 2 years or both. (b)The statutory maximum or imprisonment for 6 months or both. |
F2Words in Sch. 18 inserted (1.10.2023) by Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 14), ss. 7(2), 17(3); S.R. 2023/74, art. 2, Sch.