The Deregulation (Gaming on Sunday in Scotland) Order 1997

Made: 14th March 1997

Coming into force: 15th April 1997

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, hereby makes the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Gaming on Sunday in Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force one month after the date on which it is made.

2

• (1) In section 18 of the Gaming Act 1968[^f00003] (gaming on Sundays)–

• (a) in subsection (1), the words “In England and Wales”; and

• (b) subsection (2),

are hereby repealed.

• (2) Section 1(3) of the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1987 (which is spent in consequence of paragraph (1) above) is hereby repealed.

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 14th March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends section 18 of the Gaming Act 1968 by extending subsection (1), so that the restriction on Sunday gaming made by that subsection will apply throughout Great Britain; and repealing subsection (2) which made more restrictive provision in respect of Sunday gaming in Scotland. The effect of the Order is that section 18 will prohibit gaming on a Sunday between the hours of four in the morning and two in the afternoon throughout Great Britain.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1968 c. 65.

[^f00002]: 1994 c. 40.

[^f00003]: Section 18 was amended by the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1987 (c. 11), section 1.