The Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 454

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1998

Made

24th February 1998

Laid before Parliament

4th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 5(1) of the Schedule to the Gaming (Bingo) Act 1985(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

2.  In article 2 of the Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) Order 1986(2)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for “£148,000” there shall be substituted “£152,000”; and

(b) in paragraph (b), for “£143,000” there shall be substituted “£146,500”.

3.  The Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1995(3) is hereby revoked.

George Howarth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

24th February 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 2(a) of the Gaming (Bingo) Act (Fees) Order 1986 so as to increase from £148,000 to £152,000 the fee payable to the Gaming Board for Great Britain for the issue of a certificate issued by the Board to an organiser of games of multiple bingo under the Schedule to the Gaming (Bingo) Act 1985. This Order also amends article 2(b) of the 1986 Order so as to increase from £143,000 to £146,500 the fee payable to the Gaming Board for Great Britain for the continuing in force, for a period of three years, of such a certificate.

(1)

1985 c. 35.

(2)

S.I. 1986/833; the sums specified in article 2(a) and 2(b) of the 1986 Order are as substituted by S.I. 1995/322.

(3)

S.I. 1995/322.