The Gaming (Small Charges) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2648

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming (Small Charges) Order 1992

Made

26th October 1992

Laid before Parliament

3rd November 1992

Coming into force

1st December 1992

In pursuance of sections 40(2) and 51(4) of the Gaming Act 1968(1), I hereby make the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Gaming (Small Charges) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st December 1992.

(2) This Order does not extend to Scotland.

2.  For the purposes of section 40(2) of the Gaming Act 1968—

(a) in the case of gaming which consists exclusively of playing bridge or whist, or bridge and whist, and takes place on a day on which the premises used therefor are not used for any other gaming, or for any other gaming except gaming by means of a machine to which Part III of the Gaming Act 1968 applies, the sum of £6; and

(b) in any other case, the sum of 50p;

is hereby specified.

3.  The following orders are hereby revoked:

(a) the Gaming (Small Charges) Order 1975(2);

(b) the Gaming (Small Charges) (Amendment) Order 1980(3); and

(c) the Gaming (Small Charges) (Amendment) Order 1988(4).

Kenneth Clarke

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

26th October 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order permits a charge of up to £6 a person a day to be made in clubs and miners' welfare institutes when only bridge and whist are played. When any other game of equal chance is played, it permits a charge of 50p (previously 30p).

(1)

1968 c. 65; section 40(2) was amended by section 1(3) of the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1973 (c. 12).

(2)

S.I. 1975/670.

(3)

S.I. 1980/1127.

(4)

S.I. 1988/1028.