Guidance
Guidance to licensing authorities
The Gambling Commission's guidance for licensing authorities.
Contents
- Changes to the Guidance for Licensing Authorities
- Part 1: General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation
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- Introduction
- Partnership working between the Commission and licensing authorities – shared regulation
- Co-ordination and contact
- Primary legislation
- Statutory aim to permit gambling
- The licensing objectives
- Codes of practice
- Licensing authority discretion (s.153 of the Act)
- Local risk assessments
- Licensing authority policy statement
- Limits on licensing authority discretion
- Other powers
- Part 2: The licensing framework
- Part 3: The Gambling Commission
- Part 4: Licensing authorities
- Part 5: Principles to be applied by licensing authorities
- Part 6: Licensing authority policy statement
- Part 7: Premises licences
- Part 8: Responsible authorities and interested parties definitions
- Part 9: Premises licence conditions
- Part 10: Review of premises licence by licensing authority
- Part 11: Provisional statements
- Part 12: Rights of appeal and judicial review
- Part 13: Information exchange
- Part 14: Temporary use notices
- Part 15: Occasional use notices
- Part 16: Gaming machines
- Part 17: Casinos
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- Casino premises
- Casino games
- Protection of children and young persons
- The process for issuing casino premises licences
- Resolutions not to issue casino licences
- Converted casinos (with preserved rights under Schedule 18 of the Act)
- Casino premises licence conditions
- Mandatory conditions – small casino premises licences
- Mandatory conditions – converted casino premises licences
- Default conditions attaching to all casino premises licences
- Self-exclusion
- Part 18: Bingo
- Part 19: Betting premises
- Part 20: Tracks
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- Definition of a track
- Track premises licences – differences from other premises licences
- Betting on tracks
- Licences and other permissions for the provision of betting facilities
- Betting on event and non-event days
- Social responsibility considerations for tracks
- Gaming machines
- Self-service betting terminals (SSBTs)
- Applications
- Licence conditions and requirements
- Part 21: Adult gaming centres
- Part 22: Licensed family entertainment centres
- Part 23: Introduction to permits
- Part 24: Unlicensed family entertainment centres
- Part 25: Clubs
- Part 26: Premises licensed to sell alcohol
- Part 27: Prize gaming and prize gaming permits
- Part 28: Non-commercial and private gaming, betting and lotteries
- Part 29: Poker
- Part 30: Travelling fairs
- Part 31: Crown immunity and excluded premises
- Part 32: Territorial application of the Gambling Act 2005
- Part 33: Door supervision
- Part 34: Small society lotteries
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- Small society lotteries
- The status of lotteries under the Act
- Licensing authority guidance
- Social responsibility
- External lottery managers’ licence status
- Lottery tickets
- Prizes
- Specific offences in relation to lotteries
- Application and registration process for small society lotteries
- Administration and returns
- Part 35: Chain gift schemes
- Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters
- Appendix A: Summary of machine provisions by premises
- Appendix B: Summary of gaming machine categories and entitlements
- Appendix C: Summary of gaming entitlements for clubs and alcohol-licensed premises
- Appendix D: Summary of offences under the Gambling Act 2005
- Appendix E: Summary of statutory application forms and notices
- Appendix F: Inspection powers
- Appendix G: Licensing authority delegations
- Appendix H: Poker games and prizes
- Appendix I: Glossary of terms
Changes to the Guidance for Licensing Authorities
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April 2021 Update
Added Part 1 - General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation - Primary legislation - 1.14 & 1.19
Added Part 16: Gaming machines - The meaning of ‘available for use’ - 16.17, 16.18, 16.19, 16.20, 16.21, 16.22, 16.23, 16.24, 16.25 and 16.26
Added Part 17: Casinos - Controlling where gaming machines may be played – casino - 17.58
Added Part 18: Bingo - Gaming machines - 18.8
Added Part 19: Betting premises - Gaming machines - 19.5
Added Part 21: Adult gaming centres - Self-exclusion - 21.4
Added Part 34: Small society lotteries - Application and registration process for small society lotteries - 24.29
Added Appendix I: Glossary of terms – OPSS
Amended Part 1: General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation: Co-ordination and contact – 1.10
Amended Part 1: General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation: Primary legislation – 1.18
Amended Part 2: The licensing framework – Introduction - 2.3
Amended Part 3: The Gambling Commission - Main functions of the Commission - 3.5
Amended Part 3: The Gambling Commission - Relationship between the Commission and licensing authorities - 3.9 and 3.10
Amended Part 6: Licensing authority policy statement - Local risk assessments - 6.44
Amended Part 6: Licensing authority policy statement - Consultation process - 6.58
Amended Part 7: Premises licences - Applications - 7.41
Amended Part 8: Responsible authorities and interested parties definitions - Responsible authorities - 8.8
Amended Part 9: Premises licence conditions - S.179 – Pool betting - 9.16
Amended Part 15: Occasional use notices - Introduction - 15.1
Amended Part 15: Occasional use notices - Use (and misuse) of OUNs 15.4
Amended Part 18: Bingo - Gaming machines - 18.8
Amended Part 20: Tracks - Definition of a track - 20.5
Amended Part 20: Tracks - Betting on tracks - 20.16, 20.18, 20.19 and 20.20
Amended Part 20: Tracks - Applications - 20.55
Amended Part 20: Tracks - Pool betting - 20.64
Amended Part 21: Adult gaming centres - Gaming machine - 21.5
Amended Part 24: Unlicensed family entertainment centres - Introduction - 24.2
Amended Part 25: Clubs - Permits - 25.54
Amended Part 29: Poker - Advertising - 29.52
Amended Part 34: Small society lotteries - Application and registration process for small society lotteries - 34.40 and 34.41
Amended Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters - Powers of entry in Scotland - 36.18, 39.19 and 36.20
Amended Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters - Illegal gambling - 36.25
Amended Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters - Test purchasing and age verification - 36.32
Amended Appendix I: Glossary of terms - DCMS changed to Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport
Removed Part 1: General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation - Co-ordination and contact - 1.11 and 1.12
Removed Part 13: Information exchange - Information the Commission makes available to licensing authorities - 13.18
Removed Part 16: Gaming machines - The meaning of ‘available for use’ - 16.17, 16.18, 16.19, 16.20, 16.21 and 16.22
Removed Part 29: Poker - Advertising - 29.53 and 29.54
Removed Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters - Illegal gambling - 36.22
Removed Appendix I: Glossary of terms - BRDO
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