Clause 120 - Nature of personal licence
Gambling Bill
10:45 am
Mr Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
Amendments Nos. 293 and 294 will make it clear that the personal licence will relate to personal management offices or operators' functions as defined in clause 76. That was always the intention, but we became aware that some confusion arose from the present drafting of the clauses. Indeed, some have suggested that clause 61, which defines the operating licence, is what determines the type of personal licence. That is not the case. We are clear that the commission will have the freedom to define particular types of personal licence; for example, for croupiers or for the director of a betting organisation. The boundaries for the exercise are the definition of management offices and operating functions in clause 76. I appreciate that there is a level of complexity in reading between the two clauses but we believe that the amendments would pin down precisely what clause 120 refers to.