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(1)This section applies to any gaming which (being gaming to which this Part of this Act applies) is gaming for prizes in respect of which the conditions specified in the next following subsection are fulfilled.
(2)Those conditions are that—
(a)the amount paid by any person for any one chance to win a prize does not exceed one shilling;
(b)the aggregate amount taken by way of the sale of chances in any one determination of winners (if any) of prizes does not exceed fifty shillings, and the sale of those chances and the declaration of the result take place on the same day and on the premises on which, and at the time when, the game is played;
(c)no money prize exceeding one shilling is distributed or offered;
(d)the winning of, or the purchase of a chance to win, a prize does not entitle any person (whether subject to a further payment by him or not) to any further opportunity to win money or money’s worth by taking part in any other gaming or in any lottery; and
(e)the aggregate amount or value of the prizes on any one determination of winners does not exceed fifty shillings.
(3)Section 13 of this Act shall not have effect in relation to any gaming to which this section applies which takes place on premises in respect of which a licence under this Act is for the time being in force and, in relation to any such gaming, section 3 of this Act, as applied by section 14 of this Act, shall not be taken to be contravened by reason only that a person pays for a chance to win a prize.
(4)Where any gaming to which this section applies takes place on any bingo club premises, section 17 of this Act shall not have effect so as to prevent persons under eighteen from being present in any room on those premises while any such gaming takes place there, if they do not take part in the gaming as players.
(5)Where on the grant or renewal of a licence under this Act in respect of any premises the licensing authority impose restrictions under paragraph 25 of Schedule 2 to this Act whereby gaming on those premises is limited to a particular game or games, those restrictions, in so far as they so limit the gaming, shall not have effect in relation to any gaming to which this section applies.
(6)Where a game of bingo is played for prizes on any bingo club premises, and constitutes gaming to which this section applies, the prizes won in that game shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 20(8) of this Act.
(7)No account shall be taken of subsection (5) of this section for the purpose of determining—
(a)whether a club is one to which section 20 of this Act applies, or
(b)whether any premises are bingo club premises, or
(c)whether, for the purposes of Schedule 2 to this Act, a licence under this Act is a bingo club licence.
(8)The Secretary of State may by order direct that any paragraph of subsection (2) of this section which is specified in the order and which specifies a sum shall have effect as if, for that sum, there were substituted such other sum as may be specified in the order.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 21(2)(a) has effect (28.5.1999) as if, for the sum specified, there were substituted the sum of 50p by virtue of S.I. 1999/1260, art. 4(a)
C2S. 21(2)(b) has effect (12.6.2000) as if, for the sum specified, there were substituted the sum of £120 by virtue of S.I. 2000/1213, art. 3(a)
C3S. 21(2)(c) has effect (28.5.1999) as if, for the sum specified, there were substituted the sum of £15 by virtue of S.I. 1999/1260, art. 4(c) (which art. 4(c) was revoked (14.1.2002) by S.I. 2001/4035, art. 3)
C4S. 21(2)(e) has effect (12.6.2000) as if, for the sum specified, there were substituted the sum of £120 by virtue of S.I. 2000/1213, art. 3(b)
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