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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 2 June 1995 - onwards

114. Amendment of section 43 (gaming machine licence duty) of Finance Act, 1975.

Section 43 of the Finance Act, 1975, is hereby amended -

(a) in subsection (1) by the insertion of the following definition after the definition of "premises":

"'public place' means any place, including a premises, to which the public have access as of right or by permission or membership and whether subject to or free of charge and includes open air venues and any offices, courts, yards and gardens which are occupied together with and are within the curtilage, or in the immediate vicinity, of the public place where gaming machines are located;";

(b) in subsection (3) (inserted by section 71 of the Finance Act, 1993) by the substitution of "public place" for "premises" and of "conspicuous position" for "conspicuous place";

(c) in subsection (5) (inserted by section 71 of the Finance Act, 1993) by the substitution of "Any person" for "The holder of a gaming licence" and by the substitution of "without displaying a gaming machine licence" for "without a gaming machine licence"; and

(d) in subsection (10) by the substitution in paragraph (a) of "a public place" for "premises".