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Register of licences, certificates and permitsN.I.

174.—(1) [F1The Department of Justice shall cause to be kept (whether by clerks of petty sessions or otherwise)] a register of—

(a)bookmakers' licences;

(b)bookmaking office licences;

(c)bingo club licences;

(d)gaming machine certificates;

(e)gaming machine permits; and

(f)lottery certificates;

[F1granted by a county court or a court of summary jurisdiction] .

(2) [F2There shall be recorded] in the register in respect of each licence, certificate or permit—

(a)the matters which under this Order or by regulations are required to be specified on the licence, certificate or permit;

(b)particulars of the provisional grant of a bookmaking office licence or a bingo club licence and of any such licence declared final;

(c)particulars of any renewal of the licence or certificate or of the transfer of any bookmaking office licence;

(d)particulars of any bookmaking office licence or bingo club licence granted conditionally, of any period fixed by the court under Article 13(1) or (3) or 64(1) or (3) and of any declaration made by the court under Article 13(5) or 64(5);

(e)particulars of any notice served under Article 15(10), 66(9), 86(9) or 143(7);

(f)particulars of any restriction imposed on a bingo club licence under Article 63(8) or 68(5)(a), any direction given in respect of bingo club premises under Article 63(9) or 68(6)(a), any declaration made in respect of bingo club premises under Article 107, any variation of any such restriction or direction and any cancellation of any such direction or declaration;

[F3(fa)particulars of any declaration made in respect of a licensed office under Article 107 and any cancellation of any such declaration;]

(g)particulars of any revocation of the licence, certificate or permit and of any disqualification order made in consequence of the revocation;

[F4(gg)particulars of the forfeiture and cancellation of any bookmaking office licence in consequence of an order made under paragraph 15(1) of Schedule 1 to the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981;]

(h)particulars of any conviction of—

(i)a licensed bookmaker of any offence such as is mentioned in Article 53(1); or

(ii)any person of an offence mentioned in Article 79(1); or

(iii)a holder of a gaming machine certificate or a gaming machine permit of any offence mentioned in Article 125(1); or

(iv)a holder of a lottery certificate of any offence mentioned in Article 152;

and of any disqualification order made in consequence of the conviction;

(i)particulars of any matters such as are mentioned in paragraph (4)(a);

(j)such other matters as may be prescribed by regulations.

(3) [F5The Department of Justice shall also cause to be kept]

(a)the plans received F6... under[F3 paragraph (4)], Article 64(1)(b)F3. . . or Part I of Schedule 9 as modified by Part II of that Schedule and any modifications of those plans consented to by the court under[F3 Article] 65(6);

(b)the particulars of any notice served under Article 173;

and those plans and particulars shall be deemed to be matters which are required to be, and have been, recorded in the register under paragraph (2).

F7(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) A clerk of petty sessions may make such alterations in the register as are necessary to ensure that the matters recorded in the register in respect of the licence, certificate or permit are accurate.

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