Licence activities
Non-remote general betting limited operating licence
This licence allows you to provide facilities for betting on tracks (for example, horse race courses and greyhound tracks) as an on-course bookmaker.
If you want to provide facilities for betting on tracks (on-course bookmakers), you are required by the Racecourse Betting Compliance Ltd (opens in new tab) (RBC) to hold public liability insurance and a valid Horserace Betting Levy Board (opens in new tab) certificate. For more information about these requirements you should contact RBC directly.
If you are a track bookmaker we ask you to estimate the number of days you and your representatives will work on-course in the next annual period, in order to calculate the application and annual fees that you will need to pay.
If you operate exclusively at tracks you should include all days planned for both you and you representatives at any kind of track, for example if:
- you and your nominated representative both plan to attend two meetings, each on the same day (four meetings in all for the business that day) this would count as two days worked (two working days)
- you and your nominated representatives attend separate pitches at the same track, however the pitches are linked and thereby controlled by you; this would count as a single day worked (one working day)
- you and your nominated representative attend separate unlinked pitches at the same track; this would count as two days worked (two working days).
We need to know the total number of days you and your representatives will work, irrespective of how many tracks you visit in a day.
In recognising the market conditions faced by on-course bookmakers standing at Bookmakers’ Afternoon Greyhound Service (BAGS) meetings staged for broadcast to the off-course betting industry, the arrangements for calculating working days is slightly different.
An on-course bookmaker who stands at a BAGS greyhound meeting that is televised at licensed a betting premises, and which starts after 8am and ends before 7pm, need not count that meeting towards the overall total number of days.
Current application fees
| Fee category | Total number of days working on tracks per annum | General betting (limited) application fee |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Up to 75 | £256 |
| B1 | 76 - 199 | £512 |
| C1 | 200+ | £1,410 |
Current annual fees
Your first annual fee is due 30 days after your licence is issued and is reduced by 25 percent (ancillary and linked licence annual fees are not subject to this reduction).
After this, fees are due every year before the anniversary of the day your licence was issued.
| Fee category | Total number of days working on tracks per annum | General betting (limited) annual fee |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Up to 75 | £230 |
| B1 | 76 - 199 | £537 |
| C1 | 200+ | £1,548 |
Ancillary activities
If you are applying for a non-remote general betting (limited) operating licence and want to offer facilities for betting by telephone or by email (where you would be manually processing the bet), you should apply for an ancillary remote licence in addition to your main licence.
You may be able to apply for an ancillary remote licence if:
- the gross gambling yield from bets taken under your ancillary licence will be less than the gross gambling yield from bets taken under your non-remote operating licence
- the gross gambling yield from bets taken under your ancillary licence will be less than £550,000 per annum.
Ancillary remote application fee: £100
There is no annual fee for this ancillary licence
Related activities
- Non-remote general betting standard operating licence
- Non-remote betting intermediary licence
- Non-remote pool betting operating licence
- Remote general betting standard real events licence
- Remote general betting standard virtual events licence
- Remote betting host real events licence
- Remote betting host virtual events licence
- Remote general betting limited licence
- Remote betting intermediary operating licence
- Remote betting intermediary trading rooms only licence
- Remote pool betting licence
Last updated: 8 April 2024
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AGT updated to RBC.