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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Duration of club gaming and machine permits
Last updated: 15 November 2022
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