Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/2/part/I
Timestamp: 2018-08-18 20:42:25
Document Index: 446886274

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 3', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3']

Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, Part I is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 18 August 2018. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F1Part IE+W+S Betting
Licensed betting officesE+W+S
F110 Conduct of licensed betting offices.E+W+S
F110A Cancellation of betting office licenceE+W+S
Special provisions with respect to bookmaker’s and betting agency permitsE+W+S
F211 Cancellation of and disqualification for bookmaker’s or betting agency permit.E+W+S
The Totalisator Board and pool betting on horse racesE+W+S
12 Horserace Totalisator Board.E+W+S
(1)There shall be a Horserace Totalisator Board (in this Act referred to as “the Totalisator Board”) which shall be a body corporate and have perpetual succession and a common seal.
(2)The Totalisator Board shall consist of [F3a chairman and such number of other members as the Secretary of State may determine, all of whom] shall be appointed by the Secretary of State and hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the respective instruments under which they are appointed.
(3)The Totalisator Board may pay to any member of the Board such remuneration, and travelling, subsistence or other allowances at such rates, as the Board may with the approval of the Secretary of State determine:
Provided that the Board shall not by virtue of this subsection have power to pay remuneration to any member of the Board who is for the time being a member of, or nominated as a candidate for election to, the House of Commons.
[F4(3A)The Board may pay such pension or gratuity to or in respect of any member of the Board as the Board may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, determine.]
(4)The Totalisator Board may appoint officers, servants and agents on such terms as to remuneration, pensions or otherwise as the Board may determine.
(5)The Totalisator Board may regulate their own procedure and make standing orders governing the conduct of their business.
(6)No act or proceeding of the Totalisator Board shall be questioned on account of any vacancy in the number of the members thereof or on account of the appointment of any member having been defective.
(7)Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in any Act or other document to the Racecourse Betting Control Board shall be construed as a reference to the Totalisator Board.
F3Words substituted by Horserace Totalisator and Betting Levy Boards Act 1972 (c. 69), s. 2
F4S. 12(3A) inserted by Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53, SIF 113:1), s. 25(1)
C1Ss. 12, 14, 15 saved (1.9.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3272), art. 3(2) and Gambling Act 2005 (Horserace Totalisator Board) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2102), arts. 1(1), 2
F113 Approval of horse racecourses by Totalisator Board. E+W+S
[F1(1)The Totalisator Board [F5shall have the exclusive right] to do, and to authorise other persons to do, either of the following things, that is to say—
F5Words substituted by Horserace Totalisator and Betting Levy Boards Act 1972 (c. 69), s. 1(5)
C2S. 14(3) modified in its application to pool betting by means of facilities provided by the Totalisator Board by Horserace Totalisator and Betting Levy Boards Act 1972 (c. 69), s. 1(3)
15 Additional powers and duties of Totalisator Board.E+W+S
[F1(1)The Totalisator Board shall have power—
(a)to acquire and hold such land as may be reasonably required for the purposes of any of their functions and to sell or lease any land held by them which is not required for those purposes;
(b)to borrow for the purposes of any of their functions and to give security for any moneys borrowed by them;
(c)to make such loans or investments as they judge desirable for the proper conduct of their affairs, being loans or investments either—
(i)such as, under the enactments for the time being in force, a trustee would by authorised to make out of trust funds; or
(ii)approved, or of a description approved, by the Secretary of State;
(d)to do all such things as are incidental to, or conducive to the attainment of the purposes of, any of their functions.
(2)Subject to section 14(3) to (5) of this Act, the Totalisator Board shall apply any moneys from time to time available in their hands—
(a)in providing for the payment of rates, taxes, charges, expenses and other outgoings;
(b)in making provision for the payment of any contribution for the time being payable by them under section 30 of this Act;
(c)in making such other provision in connection with any of their functions as they think proper.]
(1)There shall be a Horserace Betting Levy Board (in this Act referred to as “the Levy Board”) which shall be charged with the duty of assessing and collecting in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act, and of applying, subject to those provisions, for purposes conducive to any one or more of the following, that is to say—
monetary contributions from bookmakers [F6and betting exchange providers].
(2)The Levy Board shall consist of a chairman and [F7six other members] of whom—
[F8(b)three members shall be appointed by the Jockey Club (incorporating the National Hunt Committee)]
[F9(d)one member appointed by the Association of British Bookmakers and the Remote Gambling Association, acting jointly.]
[F11(2A)If the Association of British Bookmakers and the Remote Gambling Association fail to appoint a member under subsection (2)(d) within a reasonable time, the appointment may be made by the chairman of the Levy Board.]
(3)Any person appointed to be a member of the Levy Board under subsection (2)(a) of this section shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the instrument under which he was appointed; and any person appointed to be a member of the Board under [F12subsection (2)(b)] of this section may be removed from the Board at any time by the body by whom he was appointed.
[F13(3A)Any person appointed to be a member of the Board under subsection (2)(d) may be removed from the Board at any time by the Association of British Bookmakers and the Remote Gambling Association, acting jointly.]
(4)The Jockey Club, [F12(incorporating the National Hunt Committee)] F14... may from time to time appoint a person to act in the place of such a member of the Levy Board as is mentioned in [F15subsection (2)(b) F16...] F16... of this section at any meeting of the Levy Board at which that member is unable to be present, and while so acting any such person shall be deemed for the purposes of any act or proceeding of the Levy Board to be a member of that Board.
[F17(4A)The Association of British Bookmakers and the Remote Gambling Association, acting jointly, may from time to time appoint a person to act in the place of such a person appointed to be a member of the Levy Board as is mentioned in subsection (2)(d) at any meeting of the Levy Board at which that member is unable to be present, and while so acting any such person shall be deemed for the purposes of any act or proceeding of the Levy Board to be a member of that Board.]
[F18(6A)The Levy Board may pay such pension or gratuity as the Board may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, determine, to or in respect of the chairman and any other members appointed by the Secretary of State.]
F6Words in s. 24(1) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(2) (with reg. 2)
F7Words in s. 24(2) substituted (13.7.2011) by Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (c. 25), s. 40, Sch. 2 para. 12(3)(a); S.I. 2011/1704, art. 2
F8S. 24(2)(b) substituted for s. 24(2)(b)(c) by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), s. 6(2)
F9S. 24(2)(d) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(3) (with reg. 2)
F10S. 24(2)(e) repealed (13.7.2011) by Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (c. 25), s. 40, Sch. 2 para. 12(3)(b), Sch. 6; S.I. 2011/1704, art. 2
F11S. 24(2A) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(4) (with reg. 2)
F12Words substituted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), s. 6(3)(4)
F13S. 24(3A) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(5) (with reg. 2)
F14Words in s. 24(4) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(6)(a) (with reg. 2)
F15Words in s. 24(4) substituted (13.7.2011) by Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (c. 25), s. 40, Sch. 2 para. 12(4)(b); S.I. 2011/1704, art. 2
F16Words in s. 24(4) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(6)(b) (with reg. 2)
F17S. 24(4A) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(7) (with reg. 2)
F18S. 24(6A) inserted by Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53, SIF 113:1), s. 25(2)
C5Ss. 24-30 saved (1.9.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (Horserace Betting Levy) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2159), art. 2
[F19(e)to make such other investments as—
(a)in providing for the payment of rates, taxes, charges, expenses and other outgoings, including any sums which they are required or authorised to pay by virtue of [F20any enactment];
F19S. 25(1)(e) substituted (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29, s. 40, Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 34 (with s. 35); S.I. 2001/49, art. 2
F20Words substituted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), s. 7(3)
C6S. 25(2)(d) amended by Horserace Totalisator and Betting Levy Boards Act 1972 (c. 69), s. 4(2)
F2126 Bookmakers’ Committee.E+W+S
F21S. 26 omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 3 (with reg. 2)
27 [F22The levy]E+W+S
[F1(1)The contributions such as are mentioned in section 24(1) of this Act to be made by bookmakers [F23and betting exchange providers] shall be paid by way of a levy in respect of each levy period in accordance with [F24this section].
[F25(1A)The levy is charged at the rate of 10% of the amount by which a person’s profits for a levy period exceed the exempt amount (see section 27D).
F22S. 27 heading substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(5) (with reg. 2)
F23Words in s. 27(1) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(a) (with reg. 2)
F24Words in s. 27(1) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(b) (with reg. 2)
F25S. 27(1A)-(1D) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(3) (with reg. 2)
F26S. 27(2)-(4) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(4) (with reg. 2)
C7S. 27 amended by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), s. 1(1)–(8)
[F2727A.Profits as a bookmakerE+W+S
F27Ss. 27A-27E inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 5 (with reg. 2)
28 Assessment of F28... levy.E+W+S
[F1(1)–(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29
[F30(4A)As soon as practicable after the end of a levy period, the Levy Board must serve an assessment notice on every person they have assessed as liable to pay the levy under section 27 for that period.
(5)An assessment notice [F31served on any person by the Levy Board] for any levy period shall be conclusive as to his liability to the levy for that period and the amount payable by him by way thereof unless not later than twenty-eight days after the notice is served on him he gives to the Board notice in writing of appeal therefrom.
(6)On receiving any notice of appeal under the last foregoing subsection, the Levy Board shall refer the appeal to an appeal tribunal established in pursuance of section 29 of this Act, which shall have power to confirm, increase or reduce the assessment, F32... but which—
(a)shall not reduce the assessment F33... unless the appellant has afforded the tribunal all the facilities it may have required for the investigation of his case;
and any decision of the tribunal F34... shall be final.
(7)Any amount assessed as payable by any [F35person] by way of the levy in respect of any levy period shall [F36(except to the extent of any payments on account)] become due twenty-eight days after notice of the assessment has been served on the [F35person] or, if he appeals therefrom in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section, on the determination or abandonment of the appeal, and shall be recoverable by the Levy Board as a debt due to them.
(8)Upon the discharge by a [F37person] of his liability by way of the levy in respect of any levy period [F38in accordance with the notice of assessment issued in his case], the Levy Board shall issue to him a certificate in writing to the effect that he has done so, and any such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein.
(9)An assessment notice may be served on any [F39person] either by serving it on him personally or by sending it to him by post at his usual or last-known residence or place of business in the United Kingdom or, if the [F39person] is a company, at the company’s registered office.
F40(10). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
F28Words in s. 28 heading omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(9) (with reg. 2)
F29S. 28(1)–(4) repealed with saving by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), ss. 2(1), 7(4)
F30S. 28(4A)(4B) inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(2) (with reg. 2)
F31Words in s. 28(5) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(3) (with reg. 2)
F32Words in s. 28(6) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(4)(a) (with reg. 2)
F33Words in s. 28(6)(a) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(4)(b) (with reg. 2)
F34Words in s. 28(6) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(4)(c) (with reg. 2)
F35Word in s. 28(7) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(5) (with reg. 2)
F36Words inserted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1981 (c. 30, SIF 12:1), s. 4(6), Sch. para. 1(a)
F37Word in s. 28(8) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(6) (with reg. 2)
F38Words inserted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1981 (c. 30, SIF 12:1), s. 4(6), Sch. para 1(b)
F39Word in s. 28(9) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(7) (with reg. 2)
F40S. 28(10) omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(8) (with reg. 2)
[F4128A.Prohibition on disclosure of informationE+W+S
F41S. 28A inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 7 (with reg. 2)
[F1(1)There shall be established for the purposes of section 28 of this Act [F42and section 2 of the Horserace Betting Levy Act 1981]—
and an appeal under section 28(5) of this Act [F43or section 2(1) of the said Act of 1981] shall be referred to a tribunal established for Scotland if the appellant is the holder of a bookmaker’s permit which was last granted or renewed by an authority in Scotland.
[F44[F45(i)a person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis; or]
(ii)an advocate or solicitor in Scotland of at least [F465] years’ standing,]
and each member of any such tribunal shall hold office in accordance with the terms of the instrument under which he was appointed [F47, but subject, in the case of the chairman, to subsection (2A) of this section].
[F48(2A)The chairman of any such tribunal shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of seventy years; but this subsection is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of seventy-five years).]
(6)If any such tribunal thinks it just so to direct in allowing any appeal by a [F49person], the Levy Board shall pay to that [F49person] such amount as the tribunal may specify towards expenses appearing to the tribunal to have been reasonably incurred by the [F49person] in connection with the appeal.
(7)If any such tribunal, in dismissing any appeal by a [F50person], or on the abandonment of any appeal after the tribunal has taken some action towards its determination, thinks it just that the [F50person] should make a payment towards expenses incurred by the tribunal in connection with the appeal, the tribunal may certify accordingly and the Levy Board shall be entitled to recover from the [F50person] as a debt due to them the amount specified in the certificate.]
F42Words inserted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1981 (c.30, SIF 12:1), s. 4(6), Sch. para. 2(a)
F43Words inserted by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1981 (c.30, SIF 12:1), s. 4(6), Sch. para. 2(b)
F44Words in s. 29(2)(a) substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 16
F45S. 29(2)(a)(i) substituted (21.7.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 10 para. 48(1)(a); S.I. 2008/1653, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)
F46Word in s. 29(2)(a)(ii) substituted (21.7.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 10 para. 48(1)(b); S.I. 2008/1653, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)
F47Words in s. 29(2) added (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para.48 (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2.
F48S. 29(2A) inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para.48 (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2
F49Word in s. 29(6) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 8(2) (with reg. 2)
F50Word in s. 29(7) substituted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 8(3) (with reg. 2)
C8S. 29 extended by Horserace Betting Levy Act 1969 (c. 14), s. 3(1)
C9Functions conferred by s. 29(2)(b) transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1
[F5129A.Meaning of “leviable bet”E+W+S
F51Ss. 29A, 29B inserted (25.4.2017) by The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 9 (with reg. 2)
F5330 Contributions by [F52successor company to the] Totalisator Board.E+W+S
F52Words in s. 30 inserted (13.7.2011) by Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (c. 25), s. 40, Sch. 2 para. 13(a); S.I. 2011/1704, art. 2
F53S. 30 omitted (25.4.2017) by virtue of The Horserace Betting Levy Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10 (with reg. 2)
[F54(1)The Levy Board and the Totalisator Board shall each keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to those accounts and prepare proper statements of account in respect of each levy period; and the accounts of each of the Boards for each such period shall be audited by qualified accountants appointed for the purpose by the Board in question for that period.
F54Act repealed (1.1.2007 for the repeal of Sch. 2 para. 10, 1.9.2007 in so far as not already in force) by Gambling Act 2005 (c. 19), ss. 356(3), 358(1), Sch. 17 (with ss. 352, 354); S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 7-12, Sch. 4); S.I. 2006/3272. art. 3 (as amended by S.I. 2007/2169, art. 4)
C10Ss. 24-31 saved (1.9.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3272), art. 3(2)
C11S. 31(1) modified (15.3.2012) by Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Audit of Public Bodies) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/854), arts. 1, 3(1)