Part 1

Excise duties

Betting and gaming duties

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