Guidance
Regulatory returns guidance
Guidance for information collected in the Regulatory Returns service by licensing sector.
Contents
- Overview and feedback
- Common terms and definitions
- General guidance on submitting regulatory returns
- Reporting gross gambling yield (GGY) on regulatory returns
- Certification statement
- Late or inaccurate regulatory returns
- How we handle your data
- Adult Gaming Centre
- Bingo
- Betting
- - Betting (standard) - non-remote
- - Betting (limited) - non-remote
- - Betting intermediary - non-remote
- - Pool betting - non-remote
- Casino 1968
- Casino 2005
- External Lottery Manager
- Family Entertainment Centre
- Gaming machines and software
- - Gambling software – ancillary, non-remote, remote and linked
- - Gaming machine technical - supplier and full - non-remote, remote and linked
- Remote Casino, Betting and Bingo (RCBB)
- - Betting host (real and virtual) and general betting (limited) - remote
- - Betting intermediary - remote
- - Betting intermediary (trading rooms only) - remote
- - Bingo (operating) - remote
- - Bingo (game host) - remote
- - Casino (operating) - remote
- - Casino (game host) - remote
- - General betting standard (real and virtual events) - remote
- - Pool betting - remote
- Society Lottery
2 - Financial information
| Group | Question | Guidance |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing Details | Category Total (Aggregate number of units sold) | Enter number of units sold. The values recorded should reflect sales for the period related to the regulatory return. A gaming machine should be counted as one unit regardless of whether it is supplied with one. Please record the number of new and second-hand machines sold. Number of machines sold should be the number that you sold over the period of this regulatory return. |
| Manufacturing Details | Category Total (Gross value of sales) | Enter value of sales. The values recorded should reflect sales for the period related to the regulatory return. The gross value of sales is for gaming machines sales only. |
| Manufacturing Details | Category Total (Gross value of software sales) | Provide details of the income received in this regulatory return period from gambling software supplied in reliance on the operating licence. |
| Distribution Details | Unit Total (Aggregate number of units sold) | Enter number of units sold. The values recorded should reflect sales for the period related to the regulatory return. A gaming machine should be counted as one unit regardless of whether it is supplied with one. Please record the number of new and second-hand machines sold direct to end users. Number of machines sold should be the number that you sold over the period of this regulatory return. |
| Distribution Details | Sales Total (Gross value of sales) | Enter value of sales. The values recorded should reflect sales for the period related to the regulatory return. The gross value of sales is for gaming machines sales only. |
| Distribution Details | Sales Total (Gross value of software sales) | Provide details of the income received in this regulatory return period from gambling software supplied in reliance on the operating licence. |
| Distribution Details | Category Total (Gross value of software sales) | Calculated field - no user entry required. |
| Profit Share | Venue - Total (Number of machines on profit share) | State the total average number of machines on profit share with all venues for the period covered by the return. |
| Profit Share | Venue - Total (Gross income) | State the gross income from profit share arrangements with venues for machines and/or software. |
| Leased | Venue - Total (Number of machines leased) | Enter the total number of machines leased to venues during this regulatory return period. |
| Leased | Venue - Total (Gross income) | Enter the gross income received from machines leased to venues during this regulatory return period. |
| Sales | Venue - Total (Number of machines sold) | Enter the total number of machines sold to or for use in venues during this regulatory return period. |
| Sales | Venue - Total (Gross income) | Enter the gross income from the sale of machines to venues during this regulatory return period. |
| Maintenance Sales and Kits | Income from maintenance sales | Enter your income from the sale of machine maintenance. |
| Maintenance Sales and Kits | Income from the sale of kits | Enter your income from kits. |
| Total Revenue | Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) total for the return | Calculated field - no user entry required. |
| Total Revenue | Is the calculated GGY above correct? | Enter 'no' if the auto-calculated GGY is incorrect. |
| Total Revenue | Actual GGY for the period | State the user-calculated GGY for the period covered by this return. |
| Total Revenue | Reason for the difference | Provide an explanation for the difference in auto- and user-calculated GGY figures. |
Last updated: 1 July 2024
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