Clause 89 - Horse-race pool betting operating licence
Gambling Bill
Public Bill Committees, 2 December 2004, 9:30 am
Mr Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 289, in page 40, line 2, at end insert—
'(4A) A condition of a pool betting operating licence to which this section applies (whether attached by virtue of section 71, 73 or 74) may make provision regulating or restricting the activities of persons authorised under subsection (2).'.
This is a technical amendment. The horse-race pool betting operating licence, like the football pools operating licence, allows the licence holder to authorise others to provide pool betting. However, conditions may be attached to the football pools operating licence that regulate or restrict the activities carried out by the authorised person. In its current form, the Bill does not permit such conditions to be attached to the horse-race pool betting licence—an anomaly that must be corrected in order to give the same safeguards to both licences.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 89, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.