The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1992

Made: 2nd December 1992

Laid before the House of Commons: 10th December 1992

Coming into force: 1st January 1993

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], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and revocation

1

This Order may be cited as the Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

2

The Gaming Machine Licence Duty (Variation of Monetary Limits and Exemptions) Order 1989[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Variations of monetary limits and exemptions

3

• (1) The Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.

• (2) In section 22(2) (small-prize machines)[^f00003] there shall be substituted “£6” for “£4.80”.

• (3) Paragraph 2 of Schedule 4[^f00004] shall be amended as follows—

• (a) in sub-paragraph (2)(b) there shall be substituted—

• (i) the amount of “£3” for the amount of “£2.40” (occurring in sub-paragraphs (2)(b)(i) and (iii)); and

• (ii) the amount of “£6” for the amount of “£4.80” (occurring in sub-paragraphs (2)(b)(ii) and (iii));

• (b) in sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the amount of “£6” for the amount of “£4.80” (occurring in three places);

• (c) in sub-paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the amount of “£3” for the amount, or aggregate amount, of “£2.40”.

Signed

Leonard Harris — Commissioner of Customs and Excise — 2nd December 1992

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.

This Order also increases 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. 1989/2254.

[^f00003]: Section 22(2) was substituted by the Finance Act 1985, Schedule 5, paragraph 3, and was amended by Article 3 of S.I. 1989/2254 which is revoked by Article 2 of this Order.

[^f00004]: Paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 was amended by Article 4 of S.I. 1989/2254 which is revoked by Article 2 of this Order.