Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 509

The Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2003

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 509

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2003

	Made	2nd March 2003
	Laid before Parliament	5th March 2003
	Coming into force	1st April 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 48 and 51(4) of the Gaming Act 1968 Act[1] hereby makes the following Order:

    1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1^st April 2003.

      (2) This Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland.

2.The provisions of section 48 of the Gaming Act 1968 specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (which relate to fees charged in relation to those matters mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule) shall have effect as if, for the references to the sums specified in those provisions (which, by virtue of the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2002[2] had effect immediately before the coming into force of this Order as if, for those references, there were substituted references to the sums specified in column 3 of that Schedule), there were substituted references to the sums specified in column 4 of that Schedule.

    3.In the Schedule to the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2002, the entries relating to section 48(3)(ca), (cb), (f), (g) and (4A) of the Gaming Act 1968 are hereby revoked.


Richard Caborn
Minister of State Department for Culture, Media and Sport

2nd March 2003



SCHEDULEArticle 2

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Provisions of section 48 referring to fees	Matters to which fees related	Previous sum	New sum
Subsection (3)	Fees Chargeable:
paragraph (ca)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the grant of a licence	£8,000	£8,200
paragraph (cb)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the transfer of a licence	£5,000	£5,125
paragraph (f)	Issue of a certificate of approval	£160	£204
paragraph (g)	Issue of machine certificate Renewal of machine certificate	£5,800 £3,970	£5,920 £4050
Subsection (4A)	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the grant of a licence	£7,500 £8,000	£7,725 £8,200
	Application for a certificate consenting to the making of an application for the transfer of a licence	£5,000 £5,000	£5,150 £5,125

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the fees to be charged in England and Wales and Scotland under the Gaming Act 1968 for the matters mentioned in the Schedule to the Order.

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment of the costs and benefits of this Order is available from the Gaming and Lotteries Branch, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2 - 4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH, telephone 020 7211 6498.

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Notes:

[1]1968 c. 65; section 48 was amended by section 1 of, and paragraph 3 of the Schedule to, the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1990 (c. 26).back

[2]S.I. 2002/642back

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