The Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (No. 2) Order 1997

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (No. 2) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st October 1997.

(2) This Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.

2.  For the purposes of section 31(3) of the Gaming Act 1968(1) (which provides for the maximum charge for playing a game once by means of a machine to which Part III of that Act applies on licensed or registered premises) there shall be specified the sum of 30p.

3.  The provisions of section 34 of the Gaming Act 1968 which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (which specify maximum sums permitted in respect of the matters mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule) shall have effect as if, for the sums specified in those provisions (and which currently have effect(2) as if there were substituted for those sums the sums specified in column 3 of that Schedule), there were substituted the sums specified in column 4 of that Schedule.

4.—(1) The provisions listed in paragraph (2) are hereby revoked.

(2) Those provisions are:

(a) article 2 of the Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (No. 2) Order 1995(3);

(b) all the entries in the Schedule to that Order in respect of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 34 of the Gaming Act 1968 except the entries in respect of non-monetary prizes in subsection (3)(b) and (c);

(c) article 2 of the Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 1995(4); and

(d) all the entries in the Schedule to that Order in respect of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 34 of the Gaming Act 1968 except the entries in respect of non-monetary prizes in subsection (3)(b) and (c).

George Howarth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

23rd August 1997