The Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 541

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order 2006

Made

1st March 2006

Laid before Parliament

2nd March 2006

Coming into force

1st April 2006

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 48(5) and 51(4) of the Gaming Act 1968(1):

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

(2) This Order extends to Great Britain.

Amendment of section 48 of the Gaming Act 1968

2.—(1) This article applies to the provisions of section 48 of the Gaming Act 1968 specified in column 1 (which relate to fees charged in relation to those matters mentioned in column 2).

(2) Each of the provisions shall have effect as if for any reference in the provision to a column 3 sum there were substituted a reference to the sum specified in the associated entry in column 4.

(3) In paragraph (2), a “column 3 sum”, in relation to a provision, is a sum—

(a) specified in column 3, and

(b) which is referred to in that provision, but as that reference has effect by virtue of the relevant Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order.

(4) In paragraph (3), the reference to the relevant Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order is—

(a) in the case of section 48(3)(f), to the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) Order 2004(2); and

(b) in the case of the other provisions, to the Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order 2005(3).

(5) In this article a reference to a numbered column is to the column so numbered in the table in the Schedule.

Revocation

3.  The Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) Order 2004 (for all remaining purposes(4)) and the Gaming Act 1968 (Variation of Fees) Order 2005 are revoked.

Richard Caborn

Minister of State

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

1st March 2006

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Column (1)	Column (2)	Column (3)	Column (4)
Provisions of section 48 referring to fees	Matters to which fees relate	Previous sum	New sum
Subsection (3)
Paragraph (ca)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the grant of a licence	£8,594	£8,938
Paragraph (cb)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the transfer of a licence	£5,371	£5,586
Paragraph (f)	Issue of certificate of approval under Part 1 of Schedule 5	£210	£222
Paragraph (g)	Issue of machine certificate	£6,605	£7,000
	Renewal of machine certificate	£4,518	£4,789
Subsection (4A)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the grant of a licence	£8,351 £8,594	£8,852 £8,938
	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the transfer of a licence	£5,567 £5,371	£5,901 £5,586

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the fees to be charged in Great Britain under the Gaming Act 1968 in respect of the matters mentioned in the Schedule to the Order.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment of the costs and benefits of this Order is available is available from the DCMS website (www.culture.gov.uk) and from the Gambling and National Lottery Licensing Division, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH, telephone [phone].

(1)

1968 (c. 65); section 48 was amended by section 1 of, and paragraph 3 of the Schedule to, the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1990 (c. 26). The Gaming Act 1968 is to be repealed by the Gambling Act 2005 (c. 19), section 356(3)(g) and (4) and Schedule 17, on a date to be appointed by order made under section 358(1) of that Act.

(2)

S.I. 2004/531.

(3)

S.I. 2005/567.

(4)

The Order was partially revoked by S.I. 2005/567.