Explanatory note

Northern Ireland

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order—

(a)

increases the maximum money prize which can be distributed or offered in gaming for prizes on bingo club premises from £0·30 to £5;

(b)

increases, in any one determination of winners in gaming for prizes on bingo club premises, the maximum permitted aggregate amount taken by way of the sale of chances from £30 to £50 and the maximum permitted aggregate amount or value of prizes from £30 to £50;

(c)

increases the maximum charge for playing a game once by means of a gaming machine in a registered club and in certain other premises from £0·25 to £0·30; and

(d)

increases the maximum entitlement to money prizes in gaming by means of a gaming machine in those other premises from £4 to £5.