Relaxation of advertising restrictions in relation to licensed betting offices

5.—(1) Section 10 of the 1963 Act (conduct of licensed betting offices)(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (5) (which makes it an offence to publish an advertisement for a licensed betting office other than an advertisement to which subsection (6) applies) after “other than” there shall be inserted “an advertisement published in a material form or”.

(3) In subsection (6)—

(a)after “if” there shall be inserted “it is published otherwise than in a material form and”; and

(b)in paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (iii) (which relates to advertisements in a material form), together with the word “or” preceding it, are hereby repealed.