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Customs and Excise Management Act 1979

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102Payment for excise licences by cheque

(1)Any government department or local authority having power to grant an excise licence may, if they think fit, grant the licence upon receipt of a cheque for the amount of the duty payable thereon.

(2)Where a licence is granted to any person on receipt of a cheque and the cheque is subsequently dishonoured, the licence shall be void as from the time when it was granted and the department or authority who granted it shall send to that person, by letter sent by registered post or the recorded delivery service and addressed to him at the address given by him when applying for the licence, a notice requiring him to deliver up he licence within the period of 7 days from the date when the notice was posted.

(3)If a person who has been required under subsection (2) above to deliver up a licence fails to comply with the requirement within the period mentioned in that subsection he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of the following amount, that is to say—

(a)where the licence is a gaming licence or a gaming machine licence, a penalty of ‚¤500

(b)in any other case, a penalty of £50.

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