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Club machine permit

A club machine permit (CMP) is available to members’ clubs, miners’ welfare institutes and commercial clubs.

It allows the club to offer:

  • equal chance gaming such as poker and bingo
  • up to three gaming machines in total of categories B3A, B4, C or D, but by agreement, only one machine can be of category B3A (B3A not permitted for commercial clubs).

Restrictions on the gaming

These include limits on:

  • stakes and prizes for bingo, a maximum of £2,000 in any seven day period
  • stakes for poker - £10 per person per game, within a premises limit of £250 in stakes per day and £1,000 per week
  • prizes for poker - £250 per game
  • participation fees per person per day - £18 for bridge or whist (if played on a day on which no facilities of any kind of gaming (other than bridge or whist) are provided by the relevant club on that day), £1 for other gaming (including poker), £3 where it’s a commercial club.
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