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Lords Amendment No. 23: In page 26, line 23, leave out from "The" to "one" in line 24 and insert:
charge for play for playing a game once by means of the machine shall be one or more coins or tokens inserted in the machine of an amount or value not exceeding (or, if more than one, not in the aggregate exceeding)".
§ Mr. Elystan MorganI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This Amendment is little more than drafting. First, it applies the new expression "charge for play" in place of the expression "amount inserted in the machine". Secondly, it takes account of the fact that tokens may be used in these machines for the purpose of playing.
§ Question put and agreed to.
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Lords Amendment No. 24: In page 26, line 31, at end insert:
which is, or two or more tokens which in the aggregate are,
§ Mr. Elystan MorganI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
Subsection (3) allows amusement machines to offer a number of alternatives which are mutually exclusive. The alternative set out in paragraph (a) is that of a money prize not exceeding 2s. or a single token exchangeable only for such a money prize. We agree that it may be convenient for a machine which offers different money prizes to deliver one, two or three 754 tokens, depending on the degree of success in the game, instead of having always to deliver only one token.
The Amendment achieves this without affecting the maximum prize of 2s., which can now be delivered by, say, four 6d. tokens instead of one 2s. token, as hitherto.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.