S.I. No. 80/1931 -- Betting Act (Revenue Forms) Regulations, 1931.

S.I. No. 80/1931 -- Betting Act (Revenue Forms) Regulations, 1931. 1931 80

No. 80/1931:

BETTING ACT (REVENUE FORMS) REGULATIONS, 1931.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of section 35 of the Betting Act, 1931 , (No. 27 of 1931) that the Minister for Finance may by order make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is in that Act referred to as prescribed or to be prescribed and is not authorised by that Act to be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for Justice :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by subsection (2) of section 35 of the Betting Act, 1931 (No. 27 of 1931) and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling does by this order make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Betting Act (Revenue Forms) Regulations, 1931.

2. In these Regulations the expression " the Act " means the Betting Act, 1931 (No. 27 of 1931).

3. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

4.—(1) An application under subsection (1) of section 7 of the Act for a bookmaker's licence shall be made in the form numbered " 1 " in the Schedule hereto, with such (if any) modifications as the circumstances may require.

(2) The photograph required by subsection (2) of section 7 of the Act shall be an unmounted photograph of the full face and shoulders with the head uncovered and shall be approximately three inches and a quarter long and two inches and a quarter wide.

5. A bookmaker's licence shall be in the form numbered " 2 " in the Schedule hereto.

6. A temporary bookmaker's licence granted under subsection (1) of section 14 of the Act shall be in the form numbered " 3 " in the Schedule hereto.

7. The register of bookmaking offices to be continued to be kept by the Revenue Commissioners pursuant to subsection (1) of section 8 of the Act shall be in the form numbered " 4 " in the Schedule hereto.

8. An application under subsection (1) of section 12 of the Act to the Revenue Commissioners to register or renew the registration of premises in the register of bookmaking offices shall be in the form numbered " 5 " in the Schedule hereto, with such (if any) modifications as the circumstances may require.

9. A certificate issued under subsection (1) of section 12 of the Act of the registration or renewal of registration of premises in the register of bookmaking offices shall be in the form numbered " 6 " in the Schedule hereto.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Finance this 13th day of November in the year

one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary,

Department of Finance.

SCHEDULE.

FORM 1.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

BETTING ACT, 1931 .

Application for Bookmaker's Licence under sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Betting Act, 1931 .

(This form when completed should be forwarded to the Collector of Customs and Excise for the area in which the applicant resides).

I*............................................................ ............... of † ............................................................ .............

being the person named in the attached certificate of personal fitness granted by the ‡ Minister for Justice,

Superintendent of the Garda Siochana for the

............................................................ .....................District,

hereby apply to the Revenue Commissioners for licence to act as a Bookmaker from the§....................day of................................................19.......... to the 30th day of November, 19...........inclusive.

Signature ............................................................ ...........

Date||............................................................ ..

* Insert full name.

† Insert full address.

‡ Delete inapplicable words.

§ Insert either the next following 1st day of December or a date not more than 14 days after the date of the application.

|| The application must be made within 21 days after the issue of the Certificate of personal fitness and must be accompanied by

(1) An unmounted photograph of the applicant's full face and shoulders with head uncovered. The photograph must have been taken not more than twelve months prior to the date of the application and must be approximately 3¼ inches long and 2¼ inches wide, and

(2) a remittance for the proper amount of the Excise Duty payable in respect of the licence for which the application is being made.

FORM 2.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

BETTING ACT, 1931 .

BOOKMAKER'S LICENCE.

..........................................................Collection

The Revenue Commissioners hereby License*............................................................ ................ residing at......................................... in the County of............................................................ ................. to act and carry on business as a bookmaker from the..................day of.............................................

19........... until midnight on the 30th day of November, 19........... but subject and without prejudice to all restrictions and prohibitions for the time being imposed by law in respect of the places in which the business of bookmaking may be carried on, he having paid the sum of ........................... pounds......................................shillings for this licence.

Dated this..................... day of................................................19..........

Photograph of † applicant.

	For the Revenue Commissioners
	Collector of Customs and Excise.

* Full name to be inserted.

† To be affixed by adhesion.

FORM 3.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

BETTING ACT, 1931 .

BOOKMAKER'S LICENCE (TEMPORARY) GRANTED UNDER SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 14 of THE BETTING ACT, 1931 .

Licence without payment of duty is hereby granted to............................................................ ....
...................................................... of ............................................................ ................ to continue to act
and carry on business as a bookmaker on and from the............................................................ ... day of
............................................ up to and including the seventh day after the decision of an appeal made
by him on the...................day of ..................................19........... to the District Court for the District
of...........................against the refusal of the Superintendent of the Garda Siochana for the District
of........................................ to give the said.......................................a certificate of personal fitness,
but subject and without prejudice to all restrictions and prohibitions for the time being imposed by law in respect of the places in which the business of bookmaking may be carried on.

For the Revenue Commissioners.

Date............................................................ ....

If, on the hearing of the appeal mentioned in this licence, the refusal of a certificate of personal fitness is confirmed by the Court the person to whom the licence is issued shall return this Licence to the Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, within eight days after the day on which the decision of the Court on the Appeal is pronounced.

FORM 4.

Name of Proprietor (or Joint Proprietors)

Precise Description of Premises

REGISTRATION

RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION

REMOVAL FROM REGISTER

Cause of Removal from Register

Observations

Signed on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners

Date from which Registration takes effect

No. of Commissioners' Order

Date from which Renewal takes effect

No. of Commissioners' Order

Date from which Removal takes effect

No. of Commissioners' Order

FORM 5.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

BETTING ACT, 1931 .

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OR RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION OF PREMISES UNDER SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 12 of THE BETTING ACT, 1931 .

I*............................................................ ............................................................ ........................................

† of............................................................ ............................................................ ............................

being (a) duly licensed bookmaker(s), do hereby apply to the Revenue Commissioners for ‡ (the renewal of ) the registration in the register of bookmaking offices of the premises which are the subject of the certificate of suitability of premises annexed hereto and situated at............................................................ ...............in the County of........................................

	Signature(s)...........................................................
	Date........................................................

This Form should be sent, on completion, to the Collector of Customs and Excise for the area in which the premises to which it refers are situated, at such time that it may reach him not more than 21 days after the issue of the certificate of suitability of premises issued in respect of the premises to which the application relates, and in the case of an application for renewal of registration, not more than fourteen days before the expiration of the registration or the last renewal of the registration of such premises.

On the making of an application for registration or renewal of registration of premises in the register of bookmaking offices this form must be accompanied by—

(1) a certificate of suitability of the premises to which the application relates.

(2) a remittance for the proper amount of the Excise Duty payable in respect of the registration or renewal of registration of the premises in respect of which the application is made.

* Full names.

† Full address.

‡ Delete inapplicable words.

FORM 6.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

BETTING ACT, 1931 .

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION (OR RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION) OF BOOKMAKING OFFICES.

This is to certify that the Revenue Commissioners have entered the following particulars in the register of bookmaking offices:—
Name of Registered Proprietor............................................................ .................................................
Situation and Description of Premises............................................................ .....................................
Date from which the Registration (or Renewal of Registration) takes effect ............................................................ ................................................

Unless and until removed from the Register under or by virtue of the Betting Act, 1931 , any premises registered in the Register of Bookmaking Offices shall continue to be so registered until midnight on the 30th day of November next after the registration thereof, and shall then (unless the registration has been renewed under the Betting Act, 1931 ) be removed from the said Register.

Registered premises shall not be opened or kept open for the transaction of business at any time on any Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, nor before the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of six o'clock in the afternoon on any other day.

By Order of the Revenue Commissioners.

Dublin Castle.

Date.....................................................

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