Finance Act 1994

Licences for periods beginning on or after 1st May 1994

1 (1) The [1981 c. 63.] Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For section 21(3) (period of gaming machine licences) there is substituted—

“(3) A gaming machine licence may be granted for a period of a month, or of any number of months not exceeding twelve, beginning on any day of any month”.

(3) Section 22(5) (rates of duty) is omitted.

(4) For section 23 (amount of duty) there is substituted—

“23 Amount of duty

(1) The amount of duty payable on a gaming machine licence shall be—

(a) the appropriate amount for the machine which it authorises, or

(b) if it authorises two or more machines, the aggregate of the appropriate amounts for each of those machines.

(2) The appropriate amount for each machine shall be determined in accordance with the following Table by reference to—

(a) the period for which the licence is granted, and

(b) whether the machine falls within column 2 or column 3 of the Table,

and references in this Part to a rate of gaming machine licence duty are references to the rate in column 2 or the rate in column 3.

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Period (in months) for which licence granted	Small prize or five-penny machines	Other machines
1	50	125
2	90	230
3	130	335
4	170	435
5	210	540
6	245	630
7	290	735
8	330	840
9	365	930
10	405	1,035
11	425	1,090
12	450	1,150”

(5) In section 24 (restrictions on number of licences)—

(a) subsection (2),

(b) in subsections (3) and (4), “such”, and

(c) in subsection (6)(a), the words from “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (i) to “greater”,

are omitted.

(6) In section 26 (supplementary provisions), in subsection (4)—

(a) “section 22(5) or” is omitted, and

(b) for “those provisions” there is substituted “that provision”.

(7) In Part II of Schedule 4 (supplementary provisions) for paragraphs 6 and 7 (applications and duration of licences) there is substituted—

“6 An application for a gaming machine licence shall be made to the Commissioners in such form and manner as they may require.

7 The period for which a gaming machine licence is granted shall begin with the day on which application for the licence is received by the Commissioners or, if a later day is specified for that purpose in the application, with that day; and the licence shall expire at the end of that period.”

(8) Paragraphs 9 to 11A of that Schedule (amendment, etc.) shall not apply at any time before 1st May 1994 to any licence in relation to which this paragraph has effect.

(9) This paragraph shall have effect in relation to gaming machine licences granted for any period beginning on or after 1st May 1994.