§ [References are to Bill [175] as printed for the Commons.]
§ 1 Clause 1, page 2, leave out ("7½") and insert ("8").
§ 2 Clause 17, page 13, line 28, leave out ("7½") and insert ("10").
§ 3 Clause 17, page 13, line 31, leave out ("three thirty-sevenths") and insert ("one-ninth").
§ 4 Clause 17, page 13, line 33, leave out ("7½") and insert ("10").
§ 5 Clause 23, page 17, line 13, leave out ("£20") and insert ("£25").
§ 6 Clause 23, page 17, line 15, leave out ("£25") and insert ("£60").
§ 7 Clause 23, page 17, line 16, leave out ("£25 plus £100") and insert ("£60 plus £120").
§ 8 Clause 23, page 17, line 16, leave out lines 19 to 27 and insert— 1182
| Description of machines authorised by the licence | Duty on whole-year licence |
| Chargeable at the lower rate. | £75 per machine. |
| Chargeable at the higher rate. | £200 per machine. |
| Chargeable at the peak rate. | £400 per machine. |
§ 9 Clause 35, page 25, line 32, leave out subsection (3).
§ 10 Schedule 7, page 56, line 19, leave out ("Section 2") and insert ("Section 2(2)").
§ 11 Schedule 7, page 56, line 29, leave out ("7(1) and 8") and insert ("and 7(1)").
§ 12 Schedule 7, page 56, line 32, leave out ("Section 9") and insert ("In section 9, in subsection (1) the words from "section 1(2)(b)" to "and", subsections (2), (3), (4), (5), (7) and in subsection (8) the words from "subsections (2)" "subsections (5)".").
§ Lord Mackay of ClashfernMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 1 to 12 en bloc. I should first say that I very much regret that as a result of a misunderstanding these amendments were only shown to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Roskill, as the chairman of the Joint Committee on Consolidation, at a very late stage last night. We should like to apologise to him most sincerely for that and also to thank him most sincerely for spending one and a half hours or so looking over the amendments both to this Bill and to the other two Consolidation Bills to which I shall refer your Lordships later. I understand from him that as a result of that examination he has no objection to put forward on behalf of the Joint Committee to these amendments.
The amendments which your Lordships are concerned with, Amendments Nos. 1 to 12 to this Bill, are necessary as a result of the amendments made to the Finance Bill at the Report stage raising the rates at which the betting and gaming duties are charged. The Consolidation Bill was introduced after the Finance Bill and took account of the provisions of the Finance Bill relating to the betting and gaming duties which were in the Bill as introduced. The changes in the rates of the duties were made at the Report stage of the Finance Bill as a means of recouping the hydro-carbon oils duty lost as a result of the amendments to that duty at the Committee stage. It is to accommodate these that these amendments are made. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendments.—(Lord Mackay of Clashfern.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.