Section 7 | Pool betting duty.

(1)Repealed^F1

(8)Paragraph 13(f) of Schedule 2 to the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (which requires the rules applying to any competition promoted by a registered pools promoter to be notified to the accountant appointed for the purpose by the registering authority before the first of the relevant sporting or other events takes place) shall have effect with the insertion after the word “notified” of the words “to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and”; and if any such promoter is, under paragraph 29(2) of the said Schedule 2, guilty of an offence by reason of a failure to comply with the duty imposed on him by virtue of this subsection—

(a)paragraph 29(3) of that Schedule (which empowers the registering authority to take proceedings for such an offence in England) shall not apply; but

(b)sections 145 and 151 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (which relate respectively to the institution of proceedings and the application of penalties imposed and costs or, in Scotland, expenses awarded under the customs and excise Acts) shall apply in relation to that offence and to any fine imposed or costs or expenses awarded in connection therewith as if they were an offence or, as the case may be, a penalty imposed or costs or expenses awarded under the customs and excise Acts.^F2

(9)Repealed^F1