Part I Customs and Excise, Value Added Tax and Car Tax

Chapter I Customs and Excise

Other provisions

7 Bingo duty: increased exemption etc.

1

Schedule 3 to the M1Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 2 the following shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (1)(a) (exemption from bingo duty for clubs etc. where prizes do not exceed certain limits)—

a

a person’s eligibility to participate in that bingo depends upon his being a member of a particular society or his being a guest of such a member or of the society;

3

In paragraph 12(1) (promoter of bingo other than bingo exempt from duty by virtue of paragraph 1, 5 or 6 to keep accounts etc.) for “paragraph 1, 5 or 6 above" there shall be substituted “ Part I of this Schedule ”.

4

This section shall apply as regards bingo played in any week beginning on or after 3rd August 1992.