The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1989

Made: 4th December 1989

Laid before the House of Commons: 11th December 1989

Coming into force: 1st January 1990

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 22(3) of and by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981[^f00001] (hereinafter called “the Act”), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1989, and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

2

The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1986[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

3

In section 22(2) of the Act[^f00003] (small-prize machines) with effect from 1st January 1990, for “£4” there shall be substituted “£4.80”.

4

Sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act[^f00004] (pleasure fairs) shall have effect from 1st January 1990, as if–

• (a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for the sum of 10p there were substituted the sum of 20p;

• (b) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for the sum of £2 (in both places) there were substituted the sum of £2.40, and for the sum of £4 (in both places) there were substituted the sum of £4.80;

• (c) in sub-paragraph (3), for the sum of £4 (in all three places) there were substituted the sum of £4.80; and

• (d) in sub-paragraph (4), for the sum of £2 there were substituted the sum of £2.40.

Signed

P. G. Wilmott — Commissioner of Customs and Excise — 4th December 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the maximum amount (in money or money’s worth) which a gaming machine may pay out for a single game if it is to qualify as a small-prize machine.

The Order also increases the maximum permitted amount to play a machine once, and the maximum permitted prize levels for a single play, under the exemption from gaming machine licence duty for gaming by machine at a pleasure fair.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 63; section 22(3) was substituted by the Finance Act 1985 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 3; section 33(1) defines “the Commissioners”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/2069.

[^f00003]: Section 22(2) was substituted by the Finance Act 1985, Schedule 5, paragraph 3 and was amended by article 3 of S.I. 1986/2069.

[^f00004]: Paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act was amended by article 4 of S.I. 1986/2069.