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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Amendments of the Gaming Act 1968

Duration of licence or registration

11(1)Paragraph 52 of Schedule 2 (duration of licences) is amended as follows.

(2)In sub-paragraph (1) (of which paragraph (a) relates to the expiry of licences which have not been renewed and paragraph (b) to the expiry of licences which have been renewed)—

(a)in paragraph (a) for " the end of the month of May in the year following that in which it was granted" substitute " the end of the period of one year beginning with the date on which it was granted " ; and

(b)in paragraph (b) for " the end of the month of May in the year following that in which it was last renewed " substitute " the end of the period of one year from the date on which it would otherwise have expired ".

(3)Omit sub-paragraph (2) (which is spent).