Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill

Insert the following new Clause—

“Payment of Horserace Betting Levy by holders of remote operating licences

(1)     The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument
make provision so as to secure that the bookmakers by whom the levy
under section 27 of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 is payable
include bookmakers who are required to hold a remote operating licence
(within the meaning given by the Gambling Act 2005).

(2)     Regulations under subsection (1) may—

(a)   confer a discretion on any person;

(b)   include provision amending, repealing, revoking or otherwise
modifying any provision made by or under an enactment;

(c)   make different provision for different purposes;

(d)   include incidental, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving
provision.

(3)     No regulations may be made under subsection (1) unless a draft of the
statutory instrument containing them has been laid before and approved
by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(4)     Nothing in this section is to be read as preventing—

(a)   the bringing into force of Part 2 of the Horserace Betting and
Olympic Lottery Act 2004, or

(b)   the exercise of any power under that Part.”

Page 3, line 33, at end insert—

“(5A)    An order under subsection (5) relating to the commencement of section 2
may not be made until the Secretary of State has reported to Parliament on
the outcome of any reviews into advertising of gambling in Britain that
they have commissioned in the six months before the day on which this Act
is passed.”