Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 353

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

Gaming Machine (Form of Amusement Permit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

19th August 2004

Coming into operation

30th September 2004

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 114(1) of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985(1) and now vested in it(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Gaming Machine (Form of Amusement Permit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 30th September 2004.

Form of amusement permit

2.—(1) An amusement permit shall be granted in Form 1 and renewed in Form 2 in the Schedule.

(2) There shall be entered on each permit such of the entries as are therein set out as relate to the grant or renewal of the permit by the district council.

Revocation

3. The Gaming Machine (Form of Amusement Permit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(3) are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 19th August 2004.

L.S.

Henry Johnston

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE

FORM 1PERMIT AUTHORISING GAMING BY MEANS OF GAMING MACHINES – AMUSEMENT PERMIT(Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985: Article 114)

Regulation 2(1)

FORM 2RENEWAL OF PERMIT AUTHORISING GAMING BY MEANS OF GAMING MACHINES – AMUSEMENT PERMIT(Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985: Article 115)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations prescribe the form of amusement permits.

They make provision for the form of an amusement permit granted for the purposes of Article 108(1)(c) or 108(1)(ca) of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985. The latter permit is subject to conditions restricting access to the premises for which it is granted, or to an area within those premises, to people aged 18 or over.

They revoke and re-enact with changes the Gaming Machine (Form of Amusement Permit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986.

(1)

S.I. 1985/1204 (N.I. 11) as amended by S.I. 2004/310 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definitions of “the Department” and “regulations”

(2)

See Article 8(b) of and Part II of Schedule 6 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481)

(3)

S.R. 1986 No. 127