Part 1Excise duties

Betting and gaming duties

I112 Pool betting duty etc

1

Schedule 4 to this Act has effect.

2

In that Schedule, Part 1—

  • makes provision about pool betting duty, and

  • provides for coupon betting to cease to be subject to pool betting duty but to be subject to general betting duty instead,

and Part 2 contains minor amendments and transitional provisions.

3

The amendments made by paragraph 2 of that Schedule have effect for the purposes of accounting periods beginning on or after 31st March 2002; but this does not apply to the substitution of the new regulation-making provisions.

4

The amendments made by paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Schedule apply to bets made on or after 31st March 2002.

5

Subsections (1) to (4) shall (subject to subsections (6) and (7)) be deemed to have come into force on 31st March 2002.

6

Subsection (1), so far as relating to paragraphs 5, 6(a) and (c), 7 to 9, 10(1), (2), (5) to (11), (13) and (14), 11, 12(1) and (3), 13 and 14 of Schedule 4 to this Act, shall be deemed to have come into force on 24th April 2002.

7

Subsection (1), so far as relating to—

a

the substitution of the new regulation-making provisions by paragraph 2 of that Schedule, and

b

paragraphs 10(3), (4) and (12) and 12(2) of that Schedule,

comes into force on the day on which this Act is passed; but the powers conferred by the new regulation-making provisions are exercisable only as respects accounting periods beginning after that day.

8

In this section “the new regulation-making provisions” means the following new provisions of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c. 63)—

  • section 7D(6) to (8),

  • section 7E(4) and (5),

  • section 7F(6) and (7),

  • section 8(3) and (4), and

  • section 8B(1)(b) and (2).