Gaming Act 1968 (repealed)

37 Regulations with respect to machines and records. E+W+S

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations—

(a) prohibit, or impose such restrictions as he may consider necessary or expedient on, the sale, supply, maintenance or use of machines to which this Part of this Act applies which are of a description specified in the regulations;

(b) prohibit, or impose such restrictions as he may consider necessary or expedient on, the sale or supply of tokens [F1 or other objects] of a description so specified for use in machines to which this Part of this Act applies;

(c) impose special requirements in respect of machines to which this Part of this Act applies which are installed, or are sold or supplied for the purpose of being installed, on any such premises as are mentioned in section 36(1) of this Act.

(2) In respect of machines to which this Part of this Act applies which are installed on any such premises, regulations made by the Secretary of State may—

(a) in the case of premises in respect of which a licence under this Act is for the time being in force, require the holder of the licence, or

(b) in the case of premises in respect of which a club or a miners’ welfare institute is for the time being registered under Part II or under this Part of this Act, require the officers of the club or institute,

to make, and to retain during a prescribed period, such records and accounts as may be prescribed with respect to matters to which this subsection applies, and to provide such verification of those records and accounts as may be prescribed; and the regulations may require the holder of the licence or the officers of the club or institute, as the case may be, to send to the Board and to the chief officer of police (or, in Scotland, the chief constable) for the police area in which the premises are situated an annual statement containing such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to matters to which this subsection applies.

(3) The matters to which subsection (2) of this section applies, in relation to a machine, are—

(a) any payments made in respect of the machine, whether by way of rent, maintenance charges or otherwise;

(b) any money or tokens inserted into the machine otherwise than as charges for play; and

(c) any money or tokens removed from the machine, other than money or tokens delivered by the machine as prizes.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 37(1)(b) inserted (16.12.2003) by The Regulatory Reform (Gaming Machines) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/3275), arts. 1(1), 2(13)