The Licensed Betting Offices (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made: 22nd March 1997

Laid before Parliament: 25th March 1997

Coming into force: 19th April 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 10(6) of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963[^f00001] and paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to that Act, having regard to the definition of “prescribed” in section 55(1) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Licensed Betting Offices (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force 28 days after the day on which they are made.

• (2) These Regulations do not extend to Scotland.

Amendment of Principal Regulations

2

In regulation 4(b) of the Licensed Betting Offices Regulations 1986[^f00002] —

• (a) the words “otherwise than in a material form” shall be inserted after the word “office”; and

• (b) for the words “(ii) and (iii)” there shall be substituted “and (ii)”.

Signed

Timothy Kirkhope — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 22nd March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Licensed Betting Offices Regulations 1986 as a consequence of the making of the Deregulation (Betting and Bingo Advertising etc.) Order 1997. That Order inter alia permits the advertising of licensed betting offices through advertisements in a material form.

Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and extent.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 4 of the 1986 Regulations—

• so as to make it clear that the restrictions set out in that regulation extend to advertisements published otherwise than in a material form;

• and to remove a reference to section 10(6)(b)(iii) of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, which is repealed by the Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1963 c. 2, as amended by S.I. 1997/1074.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/103, as amended by 1995/578.