Schedule 1:  New Schedule 1a to the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 Part 3
111.Under paragraph 10 the Gaming Board is given the duty of appointing a supervising accountant (the accountant) to check whether the conditions in Part 2 of the Schedule are complied with. The accountant must be eligible for appointment as a company auditor, and may be a firm.
112.Under paragraph 11 the accountant is given powers to enable him to determine whether the conditions in Part 2 have been complied with, and in particular, he may require access to premises on which pool betting business is carried on, may require the production of documents, may authorise a person in writing to do anything that he can do under paragraph 11 and he may delegate his functions.
113.Under paragraph 12 the Gaming Board is given the duty of appointing a technical adviser to advise the accountant on the working condition of totalisators. The technical adviser is given the power to do anything he thinks necessary in order to advise the accountant in relation to the conditions and in particular, may require access to premises in which the totalisator is or has been in operation and may require the examination of a totalisator.
114.Paragraph 14 requires any person who carries on pool betting business in any month to send to the accountant a statement of account for that month. In particular, the statement must specify amounts carried over from one pool to the next where no winning claims have been made in relation to a pool bet and such other information as the accountant may require.
115.Paragraph 16 provides for an annual audit by the accountant of pool betting accounts submitted under paragraph 14. The accountant is required to certify compliance with paragraph 14, whether the accounts are in his opinion complete and accurate and that the pool betting business carried out during the year has been in accordance with Part 2 of the Schedule. The accountant, having audited and certified a person’s accounts, is required to send the audited accounts and the certificate to him, and he must then send two copies of those documents to the Gaming Board. The Gaming Board is obliged to make a copy of those accounts and certificate available for inspection by the public.
116.Under paragraph 17 the accountant is required to report to the Gaming Board if he believes that pool betting business has been carried on otherwise than in accordance with Part 2 of the Schedule.
117.Paragraphs 19 to 24 make provision for a number of offences. In particular paragraphs 19 to 21 make it an offence to obstruct, fail to co-operate with or knowingly provide false information to the accountant or technical adviser. Anyone found guilty is liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
118.Paragraph 23 makes it an offence not to submit monthly accounts to the supervising accountant and to not submit two copies of the audited accounts and accountants certificate to the Gaming Board in reasonable time. The penalty is a maximum 6 months imprisonment or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both, although the period of imprisonment may be increased to 51 weeks under the Criminal Justice Act 2003.