Remote betting host virtual 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 virtual betting products on its own server, and those products 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 virtual 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 (virtual events) operating licence. 

This licence will allow you to provide facilities for betting on virtual events (but not real 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 virtual betting facilities via that other operator’s website or app.

Remote betting host (virtual events) operating licence – application fees

Application fees

Fee category	F1	G1	G2	H1	I1	J1	K1	L1
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 £25 million	£25 million or greater, up to but   excluding £100 million	£100 million or greater, up to but excluding £250 million	£250 million or greater, up to but   excluding £550 million	£550 million or greater, up to but   excluding £1 billion
Application Fee	£1,980	£4,839	£4,839	£7,610	£11,172	£17,983	£25,374	£42,978
Fee category	M1
Annual gross gambling yield	£1 billion or greater
Application Fee	£42,978

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	G1	G2	H1	I1	J1	K1	L1
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 £25 million	£25 million or greater, up to but   excluding £100 million	£100 million or greater, up to but   excluding £250 million	£250 million or greater, up to but   excluding £550 million	£550 million or greater, up to but   excluding £1 billion
Annual Fee	£2,027	£4,855	£7,094	£9,958	£26,595	£50,993	£102,108	£289,652
Fee category	M1
Annual gross gambling yield	£1 billion or greater
Annual  Fee	£389,652 plus   £100,000 for each complete additional £500 million of annual gross gambling yield   above £1 billion

 

 

 

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