SCHEDULE 2 Increase in Certain Penalties
Part I Offences made triable only summarily, and related amendments
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
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Offences | Enactment | Amendment | Penalties |
NIGHT POACHING ACT 1828 (C. 69) Offences under section 1 (taking or destroying game or rabbits by night or entering land for that purpose). | Section 1. | For the words from “such offender” onwards substitute | Level 3 on the standard scale. |
PUBLIC MEETING ACT 1908 (c. 66) Offences under section 1(1) (endeavour to break up a public meeting). | Section 1(1) | After “offence” add | 6 months or level 5 on the standard scale or both. |
F1. . .. | F1. . . | F1. . .. | F1. . . |
BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES ACT 1963 (C. 2) Offences under the following provisions - section 7 (restriction of betting on dog racecourses); section 10(5) (advertising licensed betting offices); section 11(6) (person holding bookmaker’s or betting agency permit employing a person disqualified from holding such a permit); section 18(2) (making unauthorised charges to bookmakers on licensed track); section 19 (occupiers of licensed tracks not to have any interest in bookmaker thereon); section 21 (betting with young persons); section 22 (betting circulars not to be sent to young persons). | Section 52 | For paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2)
(penalties for certain offences) substitute | Level 5 on the standard scale or 6 months or both. |
THEATRES ACT 1968 (C. 54) Offences under section 6 (provocation of breach of the peace by means of public performance of play). | Section 6(2) | For paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute | 6 months or level 5 on the standard scale or both. |