Finance Act 1984

Part I U.K. Special Licences and Staggered Starting Dates for Whole-Year Licences in Respect of Premises

1 U.K. The M1 Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.

Marginal Citations

M1 1981 c. 63.

2 U.K. For section 21 there shall be substituted—

“21 Gaming machine licences.

(1) Except in the cases specified in Part I of Schedule 4 to this Act, no gaming machine (other than a two-penny machine) shall be provided for gaming on any premises situated in Great Britain unless there is for the time being in force—

(a) a licence granted under this Part of this Act with respect to the premises; or

(b) a licence so granted with respect to the machine.

(2) A licence of either kind granted under this Part of this Act shall be known as a gaming machine licence; and in this Part “ordinary licence” means a licence falling within subsection (1)(a) above and “special licence” means one falling within subsection (1)(b).

(3) A special licence may be a whole-year or half-year licence and an ordinary licence may be a whole-year, half-year or quarter-year licence; and the period for which a gaming machine licence is to be granted shall be determined by reference to the following Table.

Table

Type of licence	Period for which licence is to be granted
1. Whole-year special licence	Twelve months beginning with 1st October.
2. Half-year special licence	Six months beginning with 1st April or 1st October.
3. Whole-year ordinary licence in respect of premises situation in—
(a) The first region	Twelve months beginning with 1st December.
(b) The second region	Twelve months beginning with 1st February.
(c) The third region	Twelve months beginning with 1st June.
(d) The fourth region	Twelve months beginning with 1st August.
4. Half-year ordinary licence	Six months beginning with 1st April or 1st October.
5. Quarter-year ordinary licence	Three months beginning with 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st October.

In this Table any reference to a named region is a reference to that part of Great Britain which has been designated by the Commissioners, for the purposes of this Act, as that named region.

(4) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, any premises which consist of a means of transport shall be treated as being situated in the fourth region except in any case where the Commissioners direct that they are to be treated as being situated in another named region.”.

F1 3 U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 3-5 repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 3, Sch. 26 Pt. II, note

F2 4 U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 3 paras. 3-5 repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 3, Sch. 26 Pt. II, note

F3 5 U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 3 paras. 3-5 repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 3, Sch. 26 Pt. II, note

6 U.K. In section 24—

(a) subsection (1) shall cease to have effect;

F4 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e) in subsections (5) and (6), in each case after the words “contravention of" there shall be inserted “ section 21(1) above or ”; and

F4 (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. 3 para. 6(b)-(d) and (f) repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 3, Sch. 26 Pt. II, note

7 (1) Part II of Schedule 4 shall be amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In paragraphs 6 and 8(2), the words “in respect of any premises" shall, in each case, be omitted.

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F5 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(8) In sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 11 for the words “Sub-paragraph (2)" there shall be substituted “ Sub-paragraph (1) ” and for the words “that section" there shall be substituted the words “ section 21(1) or 24 of this Act ”.

F5 (9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(13) In paragraph 18, for the words from “either" to the end of paragraph (b) there shall be substituted “the officer is satisfied, having regard to the number and description of—

(a) those machines which are authorised by the ordinary licence or licences produced to him; and

(b) those machines displaying special licences;

that there has been a contravention of section 21(1) or 24 of this Act,".

Textual Amendments

F5 Sch. 3 para. 7(3)-(7) and (9)-(11) repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 3, Sch. 26 Pt. II, note

F6 Sch. 3 para. 7(12) repealed (8.11.2007) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), s. 84(5), Sch. 27 Pt. 5(1); S.I. 2007/3166, art. 2(c)