1989 No. 2254

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1989

Made

Laid before the House of Commons

Coming into force

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 22(3) of and by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 19811 (hereinafter called “the Act”), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1989, and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

2

The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 19862 is hereby revoked.

3

In section 22(2) of the Act3 (small-prize machines) with effect from 1st January 1990, for “£4” there shall be substituted “£4.80”.

4

Sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act4 (pleasure fairs) shall have effect from 1st January 1990, as if–

a

in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for the sum of 10p there were substituted the sum of 20p;

b

in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for the sum of £2 (in both places) there were substituted the sum of £2.40, and for the sum of £4 (in both places) there were substituted the sum of £4.80;

c

in sub-paragraph (3), for the sum of £4 (in all three places) there were substituted the sum of £4.80; and

d

in sub-paragraph (4), for the sum of £2 there were substituted the sum of £2.40.

P. G. WilmottCommissioner of Customs and ExciseNew King’s Beam House,22 Upper Ground,London SE1 9PJ

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the maximum amount (in money or money’s worth) which a gaming machine may pay out for a single game if it is to qualify as a small-prize machine.

The Order also increases the maximum permitted amount to play a machine once, and the maximum permitted prize levels for a single play, under the exemption from gaming machine licence duty for gaming by machine at a pleasure fair.