PART I continued
(1) Schedule 1 to this Act (which makes supplemental provision with respect to gaming duty) shall have effect.
(2) Schedule 2 to this Act (which amends the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and contains other amendments) shall have effect.
(1) Any power conferred on the Commissioners by section 11 or 12 above or Schedule 1 to this Act to make regulations—
(a) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons; and
(b) shall include power to make different provision for different cases.
(2) A statutory instrument containing an order under section 10(5) or 11(11) above—
(a) shall be laid before the House of Commons after being made; and
(b) shall cease to have effect (without prejudice to anything previously done under the order or to the making of a new order) at the end of the period of 28 days after the day on which it was made unless it has been approved, before the end of that period, by a resolution of that House.
(3) In reckoning the period of 28 days mentioned in subsection (2)(b) above, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which the House of Commons is adjourned for more than four days.
(1) This section shall have effect for the purposes of construing the gaming duty provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections 10 to 14 above, this section and Schedule 1 to this Act.
(2) The gaming duty provisions of this Act shall be construed as one with the [1979 c. 2.] Customs and Excise Management Act 1979.
(3) In the gaming duty provisions of this Act—
“accounting period” means, subject to the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act, a period of six months beginning with 1st April or 1st October;
“dutiable gaming” means gaming to which section 10 above applies;
“gaming” means gaming within the meaning of the [1968 c. 65.] Gaming Act 1968 or the [S.I. 1985/1204 (N.I. 11).] Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;
“the gaming duty register” means the register maintained under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to this Act;
“premises” includes any place and any means of transport and shall be construed subject to section 11(6) above;
“provider”, in relation to any premises where gaming takes place, means any person having a right to control the admission of persons to those premises, whether or not he has a right to control the admission of persons to the gaming.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the imposition or payment of gaming duty does not make lawful any gaming which is otherwise unlawful.
(1) In Schedule 1 to the [1994 c. 22.] Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (annual rates of duty), in paragraph 1(2) (the general rate), for “£140” there shall be substituted “£145”.
(2) This section applies in relation to licences taken out after 26th November 1996.
In paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to the [1994 c. 22.] Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (exemption for vehicles for disabled persons), after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
“(2A) This paragraph shall have effect as if a person were in receipt of a disability living allowance by virtue of entitlement to the mobility component at the higher rate in any case where—
(a) he has ceased to be in receipt of it as a result of having ceased to satisfy a condition of receiving the allowance or of receiving the mobility component at that rate;
(b) that condition is either—
(i) a condition relating to circumstances in which he is undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution; or
(ii) a condition specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State;
and
(c) he would continue to be entitled to receive the mobility component of the allowance at the higher rate but for his failure to satisfy that condition.”
Schedule 3 to this Act (which contains provisions applying to exempt vehicles) shall have effect.
(1) After section 19A of the [1994 c. 22.] Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 there shall be inserted the following section—
(1) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, issue a vehicle licence or a trade licence to a person who has agreed with the Secretary of State to pay the duty payable on the licence in a manner provided for in the agreement.
(2) In a case where—
(a) a vehicle licence or a trade licence is issued to a person in accordance with subsection (1),
(b) the duty payable on the licence is not received by the Secretary of State in accordance with the agreement, and
(c) the Secretary of State sends a notice by post to the person informing him that the licence is void as from the time when it was granted,
the licence shall be void as from the time when it was granted.
(3) In a case where—
(a) paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) apply,
(b) the Secretary of State sends a notice by post to the person requiring him to secure that the duty payable on the licence is paid within such reasonable period as is specified in the notice,
(c) the requirement in the notice is not complied with, and
(d) the Secretary of State sends a further notice by post to the person informing him that the licence is void as from the time when it was granted,
the licence shall be void as from the time when it was granted.”
(2) In subsection (1)(a) of section 35A of that Act (dishonoured cheques)—
(a) after “19A(2)(b)” there shall be inserted “or 19B(2)(c)”; and
(b) after “19A(3)(d)” there shall be inserted “or 19B(3)(d)”.
(1) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 2A to the [1994 c. 22.] Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (immobilisation, removal and disposal of vehicles), for sub-paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(1) The regulations may make provision with respect to any case where—
(a) an authorised person has reason to believe that an offence under section 29(1)—
(i) is being committed as regards a vehicle which is stationary on a public road; or
(ii) was being committed as regards a vehicle at a time when an immobilisation device which is fixed to the vehicle was fixed to it in accordance with the regulations;
and
(b) such conditions as may be prescribed are fulfilled.”
(2) In sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, for “an authorised person, or a person acting under the direction of an authorised person” there shall be substituted “the authorised person, or a person acting under his direction”.
(3) In sub-paragraph (6) of that paragraph, for “when the immobilisation device was fixed” there shall be substituted “when the vehicle was removed”.
(4) This section shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.