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Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1892

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming (Records of Cheques) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

21st August 1991

Laid before Parliament

30th August 1991

Coming into force

1st November 1991

In pursuance of sections 22(1)(b) and (c) and 51 of the Gaming Act 1968(1), and after consultation with the Gaming Board for Great Britain in accordance with sub-section (2) of the said section 51, I hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gaming (Records of Cheques) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st November 1991.

(2) These Regulations shall not extend to Scotland.

Keeping of records on premises or computer

2. The Gaming (Records of Cheques) Regulations 1988(2) shall be amended as follows-�

(a)in regulation 2 (interpretation), after the entry in paragraph (1) relating to "playing session" there shall be inserted-�

""the premises" means the premises referred to in regulation 3(1) below in respect of which a licensee holds a licence under the Act of 1968"

(b)in regulation 3 (making and retention of records), after the words "shall retain" in paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the words "on the premises", and at the end there shall be inserted-�

"(3) Where a record such as is referred to in paragraph (2) above is kept by means of a computer, the licensee shall secure that, during the period of three years referred to in that paragraph, the record is accessible from the premises and that the information comprised in the record can readily be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible.".

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

21st August 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which amend the Gaming (Records of Cheques) Regulations 1988 ("The 1988 Regulations"), provide that any record of a cheque or substitute cheque which is required by the 1988 Regulations to be retained by a licensee for a period of three years shall, during that period, be kept on the licensed premises or, where the record is kept by means of a computer, be accessible from those premises and provide information which can be taken away and which is visible and legible.

(1)

1968 c. 65; sub-section 1(b) was amended by section 2 of the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 11), and sub-section (1)(c) was inserted by paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Gaming (Amendment) Act 1990 (c. 26).

(2)

S.I. 1988/1251.


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