Background - remote gambling equipment
If an operator providing facilities for remote gambling locates any ‘remote gambling equipment’ (sometimes referred to as ‘key equipment’) in Great Britain that operator is required to hold a form of remote gambling licence whether or not those facilities are provided for use wholly or partly in the United Kingdom.
The Act defines remote gambling equipment in Section 36(4) and sets out some specific exclusions in 36(5):
(4) In this Act ‘remote gambling equipment’ means, subject to subsection (5), electronic orother equipment used by or on behalf of a person providing facilities for remote gambling:
(a) to store information relating to a person's participation in the gambling
(b) to present, to persons who are participating or may participate in the gambling, a virtual game, virtual race or other virtual event or process by reference to which the gambling is conducted
(c) to determine all or part of a result or of the effect of a result
(d) to store information relating to a result
(5) In this Act ‘remote gambling equipment’ does not include equipment which:
(a) is used by a person to take advantage of remote gambling facilities provided by another person
(b) is not provided by that other person.
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Last updated: 14 April 2021
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