Finance Act 1950

17Pool betting duty

(1)Without prejudice to subsection (5) of section six of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1947, or to subsection (2) of section fourteen of the Finance Act, 1948 (which define pool betting for the purposes of the pool betting duty), bets shall be deemed for the purposes of the said section six and of the Fifth Schedule to the said Act of 1947 to be made by way of pool betting whenever a number of persons make bets on the basis that the winners or their winnings shall, to any extent, be at the discretion of the promoter or some other person ; and for the purpose of this section any reference in the enactments relating to the said duty to winnings or to the payment of winnings shall be taken to apply notwithstanding that the winnings take the form wholly or partly of a benefit which is not pecuniary.

(2)Where a person carries on the business of receiving or negotiating bets, and there is or has been issued in connection with that business any advertisement or other publication calculated to encourage in persons making bets of any description with or through him a belief that the bets are made on the basis aforesaid, then any bets of that description subsequently made with or through him in the course of that business shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be made on that basis.

(3)This section shall have effect as respects bets made at any time by reference to any event taking place on or after the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty; and paragraph 2 of the Fifth Schedule to the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1947 (which provides for the regulation of pool betting businesses for the purposes of the duty), shall have effect in relation to a person to whom it applies by virtue only of this section with the substitution for references to the twenty-eighth day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, respectively of references to the first day and the eighth day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty.