Betting
I13Sunday working in licensed office
1
Schedule 8A to the 1985 Order (rights of betting workers as regards Sunday working) is amended as follows.
2
In paragraph 1 for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—
2
In this Schedule “betting work” means—
a
work at a track for a bookmaker on a day on which the bookmaker acts as such at the track, being work which consists of or includes dealing with betting transactions, and
b
work in a licensed office on a day on which the office is open for use for the effecting of betting transactions.
3
In paragraph 1 in sub-paragraph (4) for the definition of “commencement date” substitute—
“commencement date” means—
- a
in relation to a person who is a betting worker by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(a), the day on which Schedule 1 to the Betting and Gaming (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 comes into operation;
- b
in relation to a person who is a betting worker by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(b), the day on which section 3 of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 comes into operation.
4
In paragraph 8(4), in the prescribed form, after the words “at the track” insert “or in a licensed office on a Sunday on which it is open for business”
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5
In Article 53B of the 1985 Order (Sunday observance) at the end insert “or having effected a betting transaction on a non-sporting event at a licensed office which is open on a Sunday.”
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