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Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3970

BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES

The Gaming Machines (Maximum Prizes) Regulations 2001

Made

8th December 2001

Laid before Parliament

11th December 2001

Coming into force

1st January 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 31(5) and 51 of the Gaming Act 1968( 1 ), and after consultation with the Gaming Board for Great Britain, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gaming Machines (Maximum Prizes) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

2. For the purposes of section 31(5) of the Gaming Act 1968( 2 ) (maximum prize in respect of any one game played by means of a machine to which Part III of that Act applies on licensed or registered premises) the prescribed amount shall be, in the case of a machine on any premises in respect of which a licence under that Act is for the time being in force, other than bingo club premises (as defined in section 20 of that Act), £2,000.

3. Regulation 2(c) of the Gaming Machines (Maximum Prizes) Regulations 1998 is hereby revoked.

Richard Caborn

Minister of State

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

8th December 2001

( 1 )

1968 c. 65 ; see the definition of “prescribed” in section 52(1).

( 2 )

See regulation 2(c) of the Gaming Machines (Maximum Prizes) Regulations 1998, S.I. 1998/2150 , which prescribed an amount of £1,000.

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The Gaming Machines (Maximum Prizes) Regulations 2001 (2001/3970)

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