SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Bookmaker’s Permits, Betting Agency Permits and Betting Office Licences C1

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Cancellation of bookmaker’s permit by appropriate authority

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1

Where the appropriate authority decide to forfeit and cancel a bookmaker’s permit on an application under paragraph 26 of this Schedule, the holder of the permit may appeal against that decision to F1the Crown Court (or in Scotland the sheriff), whose decision on the appeal shall be final.

2

Paragraphs 21 (except sub-paragraphs (4) and (6) thereof), and . . . F2, paragraph 24(1) of this Schedule shall apply for the purposes of an appeal under this paragraph against the forfeiture and cancellation of a bookmaker’s permit as they apply for the purposes of an appeal against the refusal of an application for the renewal of such a permit subject to the following modifications, that is to say—

a

as if any reference therein to the applicant for renewal were a reference to the holder of the permit; and

b

as if any reference therein to a person who opposed the application before the appropriate authority were a reference to the person by whom the application under paragraph 26 of this Schedule was made;

and, in the case of an appeal to the sheriff under this paragraph, the sheriff may make such order as to the expenses of the appeal as he thinks proper.