Remote betting host real events licence

Regardless of where you are based in the world, you need a licence from us if:

you are providing facilities for gambling to consumers in Great Britain online (or through any other means of remote communication)
any part of your remote gambling equipment is based in Great Britain.

There is a remote operating licence for each type of gambling activity you might want to provide.

Hosts

Some gambling software businesses provide facilities for remote gambling by making their games or betting content available to customers of other operators. For example, rather than supplying its software directly to remote gambling operators, the gambling software business hosts its own sportsbook on its own server, and those betting markets can be accessed by customers of other operators through those other operators’ websites.

If you are a gambling software business that provides facilities for remote betting on real events but only in circumstances in which you host those facilities through other operators’ platforms, then you may be eligible to hold a remote betting host (real events) operating licence.

This licence will allow you to provide facilities for betting on real events (but not virtual events) by means of remote communication (for example, a website) and only in circumstances where the following criteria are met:

You hold a gambling software operating licence, and
You do not contract directly with any of the customers who place bets on the facilities you provide ie only customers of another operator can access your betting facilities via that other operator’s website or app.

Application fees for remote betting host (real events) operating licence

Application fees
Fee category	F1		F2		F3	G1	G2	H1	I1	J1
Annual gross gambling yield	Less than £550,000		£550,000 or greater, up to but excluding £2 million		£2 million or greater, up to but excluding £5.5 million	£5.5 million or greater, up to but excluding £15 million	£15 million or greater, up to but excluding £55 million	£55 million or greater, up to but excluding £110 million	£110 million or greater, up to but excluding £220 million	£220 million or greater, up to but excluding £550 million
Application Fee	£2,200		£2,200		£2,200	£4,839	£4,839	£6,395	£10,985	£13,197
Fee category		K1		L1
Annual Gross gambling yield		£550 million or greater, up to but excluding £1 billion		£1 billion or greater
Application Fee		£19,333		£19,333

Annual fees

Your first annual fee is due 30 days after your licence is issued to you. Subsequent annual fees are due every year before the anniversary of the day your licence was issued.

If you apply for a combination of different kinds of licence, you will get a discount on your annual fee.

Annual fees
Fee category	F1		F2		F3	G1	G2	H1	I1	J1
Annual gross gambling yield	Less than £550,000		£550,000 or greater, up to but excluding £2 million		£2 million or greater, up to but excluding £5.5 million	£5.5 million or greater, up to but excluding £15 million	£15 million or greater, up to but excluding £55 million	£55 million or greater, up to but excluding £110 million	£110 million or greater, up to but excluding £220 million	£220 million or greater, up to but excluding £550 million
Annual Fee	£2,556		£6,500		£7,517	£24,839	£35,015	£56,420	£103,090	£210,794
Fee category		K1		L1
Annual Gross gambling yield		£550 million or greater, up to but excluding £1 billion		£1 billion or greater
Annual Fee		£371,142		£471,142 plus £100,000 for each complete additional £500 million of annual gross gambling yield above £1 billion

Remote betting host real events licence

Hosts

Application fees for remote betting host (real events) operating licence

Annual fees

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