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(1)This Act may be cited as the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976.
(2)The amendments specified in Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect.
(3)The enactments specified in Schedule 5 to this Act are repealed to theextent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
(4)In so far as any instrument made or any other thing whatsoever done under any enactment repealed by this Act could have been made or done under a corresponding enactment in this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal of that enactment but shall have effect as if made or done under that corresponding enactment; and for the purposes of this provision anything which under section 57(3) of the M1Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 had effect as if done under any enactment in that Act shall, so far as may be necessary for the continuity of the law, be treated as done under the corresponding enactment in this Act.
(5)Any enactment or other document referring to an enactment repealed by this Act or by the M2Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 shall, so far as may be necessary for preserving its effect, be construed as referring, or as including a reference, to the corresponding enactment in this Act.
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(7)Where any provision contained in any local Act passed before the M3Betting and Gaming Act 1960 appears to the Secretary of State to have been superseded by, or to be inconsistent with, section 15 or 16 above, the Secretary of State may by order, a draft of which shall be laid before Parliament, specify that provision for the purposes of this subsection; and, without prejudice to the operation of any rule of law relating to the effect on any such provision of the relevant enactment in the said Act of 1960, any provision so specified is hereby repealed as from the date of the making of the order.
(8)Section 254(2)(c) of the M4Local Government Act 1972 (power of Secretary of State to amend, etc., enactments by order) shall apply to this Act as if it had been passed before 1st April 1974.
(9)This Act shall come into force immediately after the coming into force of the M5Lotteries Act 1975, or, if the provisions of that Act come into force on different dates, immediately after the coming into force of the last of them; but
(a)nothing in this subsection shall be taken as prejudicing the exercise, by virtue of section 37 of the M6Interpretation Act 1889 (exercise of statutory powers between passing and commencing of Act) of any powers under the Lotteries Act 1975 or this Act in respect of the registration of schemes for societies’ lotteries or local lotteries; and
(b)nothing in this Act shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 38 of that Act (which relates to the effect of repeals).
(10)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 25(6) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 3
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of s. 25(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
C2The text of s. 25(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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