Clause 120 - Nature of personal licence
Gambling Bill
10:45 am
Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire, Conservative)
I congratulate the Minister on moving this amendment, which neatly comes in and nicks the place of the one that we tabled, amendment No. 249. The obvious doubts and confusion that were not dispelled by the explanatory memorandum have now been clarified, but could I ask the Minister for further explanatory comment?
One of the problems in holding the licences is, in the case of amendment No. 293, that it refers again to
''the functions of a specified management office''.
What happens if individuals run more than one gambling site? Will they need separate arrangements or can their management office be allowed to operate in two places? Is the bureaucracy and the additional paperwork necessary? If they are not suitable to run one site, they cannot be suitable to run another, and vice versa. Could the Minister flesh that out a little? I believe that amendment No. 249 is more applicable and could be more flexible but, nevertheless, the Government will prevail.