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1.Qualified persons and personal licences
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2.Technical standards, equipment specifications, remote gambling equipment and gambling software
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3.Peer to peer gaming, other networks and hosting
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4.Protection of customer funds
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5.Payment
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6.Provision of credit by licensees and the use of credit cards
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7.General ‘fair and open’ provisions
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8.Display of licensed status
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9.Types and rules of casino and other games
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10.Tipping of casino employees
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11.Lotteries
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12.Anti-money laundering
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13.Pool betting
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14.Access to premises
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15.Information requirements
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16.Responsible placement of digital adverts
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17.Customer identity verification
1.2.1 - Specified management offices – personal management licences
Applies to:
All casino, bingo, general and pool betting, betting intermediary, gaming machine general, gaming machine technical, gambling software and lottery managers licences, except ancillary remote licences.
- Subject to 6 and 7 below, licensees must ensure:
- that each individual who occupies one of the management offices specified in 2 below in respect of the licensee or in connection with the licensed activities holds a personal licence authorising the performance of the functions of that office (hereafter ‘a personal management licence’); and
- that at least one person occupies at least one of those offices
- The specified management offices are those offices (whether or not held by a director in the case of a licensee which is a company, a partner in the case of a licensee which is a partnership or an officer of the association in the case of a licensee which is an unincorporated association) the occupier of which is by virtue of the terms of their appointment responsible for:
- the overall management and direction of the licensee’s business or affairs
- the licensee’s finance function as head of that function
- the licensee’s gambling regulatory compliance function as head of that function
- the licensee’s marketing function as head of that function
- the licensee’s information technology function as head of that function in so far as it relates to gambling-related information technology and software
- oversight of the day to day management of the licensed activities at an identified number of premises licensed under Part 8 of the Act or across an identified geographical area
- in the case of casino and bingo licences only, oversight of the day to day management of a single set of premises licensed under Part 8 of the Act.
- The person responsible for the licensee’s gambling regulatory compliance function as head of that function shall not, except with the Commission’s express approval, occupy any other specified management office.
- Licensees must take all reasonable steps to ensure that anything done in the performance of the functions of a specified management office is done in accordance with the terms and conditions of the holder’s personal management licence.
- Where an individual is authorised by a personal licence and that licence comes under review under section 116(2) of the Act, the operating licensee must comply with any conditions subsequently imposed on that licence by the Commission about redeployment, supervision, or monitoring of the individual’s work and any requirements of the Commission in respect of such matters applicable during the period of the review.
- Paragraphs 1 to 5 above shall not apply to a licensee for so long as the licensee is a ‘small- scale operator’ as defined in the Gambling Act 2005 (Definition of Small-scale Operator) Regulations 2006 (‘the Regulations’).
- During the period of 3 years commencing with the date on which a licensee ceases to be a small-scale operator paragraphs 1 to 6 above shall apply subject to the proviso that the phrase ‘each individual’ in paragraph 1a shall not include any individual who was a ‘qualified person’ (as defined in the Regulations) in relation to the licensee 28 days immediately prior to the licensee ceasing to be a small-scale operator.