Guidance

Regulatory returns guidance

Guidance for information collected in the Regulatory Returns service by licensing sector.

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Published
4 May 2021

Last updated
23 October 2024 - Changes

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Contents

• Regulatory returns guidance

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• 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
• • Operational information
  • Financial information
• Bingo
• • Operational information
  • Financial information
• Betting
• • Betting (standard) - non-remote
  • Betting (limited) - non-remote
  • Betting intermediary - non-remote
  • Pool betting - non-remote
• Casino 1968
• • Operational information
  • Casino information
  • Financial information
• Casino 2005
• • Operational information
  • Casino information
  • Financial information
• External Lottery Manager
• • Operational information
  • Financial information
• Family Entertainment Centre
• • Operational information
  • Financial information
• 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)
  • 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 and general betting (limited) - remote
  • Pool betting - remote
• Society Lottery
• • Operational information - Remote and non-remote

12 - Failing to report

POCA and the Terrorism Act (opens in new tab) create offences of failing to report suspicious activity¹⁷⁹ . Where a person fails to comply with the obligations to make disclosures to a nominated officer and/or the NCA as soon as practicable after the information giving rise to the knowledge or suspicion comes to the employee, they are open to criminal prosecution.

Warning The criminal sanction under POCA or the Terrorism Act is a prison term of up to five years and/or a fine.

For all failure to disclose offences under POCA, it will be necessary to prove that the person or nominated officer either:

• knows the identity of the money launderer or the whereabouts of the laundered property
• believes the information on which the suspicion was based may assist in identifying the money launderer or the whereabouts of the laundered property.¹⁸⁰

Casino operators and nominated officers, therefore, must comply with the reporting requirements imposed on them by POCA and the Terrorism Act (opens in new tab).

References

¹⁷⁹Sections 330 (opens in new tab) and 331 (opens in new tab) of POCA, and section 19 (opens in a new tab) of the Terrorism Act.
¹⁸⁰Sections 330(3A) (opens in new tab) and 331(3A) (opens in new tab) of POCA.

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Last updated: 23 October 2024

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Updated in line with version 3 of the guidance. References to 'proliferation financing' added. Formatting updated.