Gaming Licence Fees (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

L.N. 203 of 2018

LOTTERIES AND OTHER GAMES ACT

(CAP. 438)

Gaming Licence Fees (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 78 of the

Lotteries and Other Games Act, the Minister responsible for the Malta

Gaming Authority, in consultation with the Malta Gaming Authority

has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Gaming Licence Fees Citation.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2018 and these shall be read and construed

as one with the Gaming Licence Fees Regulations, hereinafter referred S.L. 438.12.

to as the "principal regulations".

Regulation 1 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 1 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) the sub-regulation (3)(b) thereof shall be substituted

by the following

"The provisions of these regulations applicable to

controlled skill games shall come into force on 1 st August

2018."; and

(b) the sub-regulation (4) thereof shall be substituted by

the following

"The provisions of the first proviso to regulation 3(1),

regulation 3(5), regulation 4(2), regulation 7 and 8, Part F

of the First Schedule, Part B of the Second Schedule, and

the Third Schedule shall come into force on the 1st August,

2018."; and

Regulation 10 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) the sub-regulation

(1)(c)(i)

thereof

shall

be

substituted by the following

"excess amounts provisionally paid shall not be

refundable and no interest shall accrue thereon in favour of

the payor, but the said excess shall be carried forward and

available for set-off against any amount payable by that

person in terms of these regulations for reference months

August 2018 to December 2018 and any subsequent licence

period;"; and

(b) the sub-regulation (1)(d) thereof shall be substituted

by the following

"as from reference month August 2018, the method of

payment envisaged in these regulations shall apply."

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