Clause 80 - Premises
Gambling Bill
4:45 pm

Mr Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)

I beg to move amendment No. 285, in page 35, line 33, after '74)', insert—

'(i) requiring that the licensed activities be carried on at a specified place or class of place, (ii) preventing the licensed activities from being carried on at a specified place or class of place, or (iii)'.

Mr Peter Pike (Burnley, Labour)

With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 286 to 288.

Mr Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)

Clause 80 specifies the circumstances in which the commission may or may not make conditions relating to premises. Clause 87(2) provides that general betting licences may not include conditions requiring that facilities be provided at a certain place or class of place, or preventing them from being so provided. There is, therefore, a potentially unhelpful overlap between the clauses, which these amendments are designed to resolve.

Amendment No. 285 makes further provision as to when the commission can and cannot make conditions relating to premises. Amendment No. 288 deletes subsection (2) of clause 87.

We are concerned that clause 61 on operating licences might be interpreted narrowly to mean that one operating licence authorises only one casino or arcade, so amendments Nos. 286 and 287 are designed to prevent that from happening, and are, I hope, a sensible improvement to the Bill.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made: No. 286, in page 35, line 39, at end insert—

'(2) An operating licence of any kind may authorise activities carried on in more than one place.'. —[Mr. Caborn]

Clause 80, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.