Gaming Act 1968

Section 49.

SCHEDULE 10Provision of Information by Licensing Authorities and Sheriff Clerks

1The clerk to each licensing authority shall keep in the prescribed form registers containing such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to the grant, renewal, cancellation and transfer by the licensing authority of licences under this Act.

2The clerk to each licensing authority in England or Wales and each sheriff clerk in Scotland shall keep in the prescribed form registers containing such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to the registration by the authority or sheriff of clubs and miners' welfare institutes under Part II or Part III of this Act, and of the renewal and cancellation by the authority or sheriff of any such registration.

3Each licensing authority shall permit any constable, and any other person on payment of the prescribed fee, to inspect at any reasonable time any register kept by the authority under paragraph 1 or (in England or Wales) under paragraph 2 of this Schedule.

4Any constable, and any other person on payment of the prescribed fee, may inspect at any reasonable time any register kept by the sheriff clerk under paragraph 2 of this Schedule.

5(1)The clerk to each licensing authority shall send to the Board such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to matters in relation to which the authority are required to keep registers under paragraph 1, or in England or Wales under paragraphs 1 and 2, of this Schedule.

(2)Each sheriff clerk shall send to the Board such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to matters in relation to which he is required to keep registers under paragraph 2 of this Schedule.

6The Board may request a licensing authority to send to the Board a statement setting out any particulars notified to the licensing authority under section 14(4) of this Act during a period specified in the request, and the licensing authority shall comply with any such request.

7Without prejudice to the preceding provisions of this Schedule, the clerk to each licensing authority, and each sheriff clerk, on being requested by the Board to do so, shall compile from such information as is for the time being in his possession, and shall furnish the Board with, such statistics as the Board may from time to time require for the purpose of assisting the Board in the performance of their functions, and in particular their functions under section 10(3), of this Act.