Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Explanatory Notes

1. Introduction

2. Background and Policy Objectives

3. Overview of the Act

4. Commentary on Sections

   1. Part 1

      1. Section 1: Interpretation

      2. Section 2: Opening of licensed offices on Sunday and Good Friday

      3. Section 3: Sunday working in a licensed office

      4. Section 4: Pool betting

      5. Section 5: Persons who may participate in bingo at a bingo club

      6. Section 6: Days when bingo and use of gaming machines permitted on bingo club premises

      7. Section 7: Offence of inviting, etc. person under 18 to play gaming machine

      8. Section 8: Gaming machines: charges and prize limits

      9. Section 9: Arrangements not requiring persons to pay to participate

      10. Section 10: Rules for societies’ lotteries

      11. Section 11: Qualifications by age, residence or corporate status for licences, certificates and permits

      12. Section 12: Prize competitions not requiring persons to pay to participate

      13. Section 13: Cheating

      14. Section 14: Enforceability of gambling contracts

      15. Section 15: Industry Levy

      16. Section 16: Code of Practice

   2. Schedules to the Act

      1. Schedule 15A

         Lotteries and Competitions: Requirements to Pay in Order to Participate

5. Hansard Reports