Is the betting remote or non-remote gambling?
The answer to this question will depend on whether either of the parties to the bet uses the internet, telephone, television, radio, or any other kind of electronic or other technology for facilitating communication in order to make or accept bets.
If the answer is yes, the activity is remote betting, and a remote operating licence is required. If no, it is non-remote.11
A remote licence will be required if the operator carries on activity (for example, providing a service to facilitate the making or accepting of bets by others) in which persons participate in the activity by means of any form of remote communication.
Where details of the betting transaction are transmitted internally by the operator by remote means, for example between the staff of an operator following acceptance a remote licence is not required.
A betting premises which relies on a remote operating licence alone to provide facilities for gambling, does not have any entitlement to make gaming machines available for use.
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Last updated: 22 November 2023
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