Part 1Excise duties

Betting and gaming duties

8Amusement machine licences: excepted machines

1

Section 21 of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c. 63) (amusement machine licences) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (3A) (excepted machines), for paragraphs (c) and (d) (certain thirty-five penny machines and video machines) substitute—

c

a fifty-penny machine that is not a gaming machine.

3

For subsection (3B) substitute—

3B

For the purposes of this section an amusement machine is a fifty-penny machine if, and only if—

a

where it is a machine on which a game can be played solo, the price for a solo game does not exceed 50p; and

b

where it is a machine on which a game can be played by more than one person at a time, the price to participate in such a game does not exceed 50p.

4

In subsection (3C) (definition of the price for a solo game), for “35p”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “50p”.

5

In section 25 of that Act (definition of different types of machine), in subsections (4) and (6) (treatment of machines capable of being played by more than one person at a time), for “an excepted video machine falling within section 21(3A)(d) above” substitute “a fifty-penny machine within section 21(3B) above”.

6

This section has effect in relation to the provision of an amusement machine at any time on or after 1st May 2002.