{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-etc-amendments-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-etc-amendments-regulations-2008/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2693",
  "legislation_title": "The Amusement Machine Licence Duty, etc (Amendments) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-etc-amendments-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Excise: amusement machine licence duty",
  "text": "After regulation 4 of those Regulations (spare amusement machines), insert—\n“Licences combined in single document\n5. Amusement machine licences need only be combined in a single document if each of the following is true—\n(a) their expiry dates are the same;\n(b) their holder is the same;\n(c) the premises with respect to which each of them is in force is the same;\n(d) each of them authorises the provision of only one amusement machine for play on those premises, but is not a special amusement machine licence (see section 21(2) of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 – licence granted with respect to a machine rather than premises);\n(e) none of them is a seasonal licence (licence for 6 months beginning 1st April - see Schedule 4 paragraphs 4(3), 4(4) and 4(8) to the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981);\n(f) at least one of them was granted for 12 months;\n(g) at least one of them was first granted on 1st November 2008 or later.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 63; section 21(2) was substituted by the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) Schedule 3 paragraphs 3(1) and 3(2). It was later amended by the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4) Schedule 3 paragraphs 1 and 2(1), and by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8) section 12(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 63; paragraph 4 was substituted by the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) Schedule 3 paragraph 4(1). Paragraphs 4(3) and 4(4) were then amended by the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4) Schedule 3 paragraphs 1, 11(1) and 11(4). Paragraph 4(8) was later amended by the Finance Act 2000 (c. 17) Schedule 2 paragraphs 1, 8(1) and 8(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2693/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:23:25.483145+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}