Guidance

Regulatory returns guidance

Guidance for information collected in the Regulatory Returns service by licensing sector.

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Published
4 May 2021

Last updated
4 March 2023 - Changes

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Contents

• Regulatory returns guidance

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• Overview and feedback
• Common terms and definitions
• General guidance on submitting regulatory returns
• Reporting gross gambling yield (GGY) on regulatory returns
• Certification statement
• Late or inaccurate regulatory returns
• How we handle your data
• Adult Gaming Centre
  • - Operational information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• Bingo
  • - Operational information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• Betting
  • - Betting (standard) - non-remote
  • - Betting (limited) - non-remote
  • - Betting intermediary - non-remote
  • - Pool betting - non-remote
• Casino 1968
  • - Operational information
  • - Casino information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• Casino 2005
  • - Operational information
  • - Casino information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• External Lottery Manager
  • - Operational information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• Family Entertainment Centre
  • - Operational information
  • - Financial information
  • - Other information
• Gaming machines and software
  • - Gambling software – ancillary, non-remote, remote and linked
  • - Gaming machine technical - supplier and full - non-remote, remote and linked
• Remote Casino, Betting and Bingo (RCBB)
  • - Betting host (real and virtual) and general betting (limited) - remote
  • - Betting intermediary - remote
  • - Betting intermediary (trading rooms only) - remote
  • - Bingo (operating) - remote
  • - Bingo (game host) - remote
  • - Casino (operating) - remote
  • - Casino (game host) - remote
  • - General betting standard (real and virtual events) - remote
  • - Pool betting - remote
• Society Lottery
  • - Society lottery - non-remote
  • - Society lottery - remote

Overview and feedback

If you misrepresent or fail to reveal information that you are asked to provide, unless you have a reasonable excuse, you will have committed an offence under section 342 of the Gambling Act 2005 (opens in new tab). Anyone who provides information of a false or misleading nature risks prosecution.

Gambling operators are required to send us a regulatory return for each type of activity for which they hold a licence.

We use the data provided to:

• ensure you are within the correct fee category,
• to provide us with vital information to ensure we regulate effectively,
• to publish bi-annual industry statistics.

The requirement to provide a regulatory return is contained within Licence condition 15.3.1 of our Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP).

The questions we ask for each licence type are contained within this section of our website, along with guidance for each question.

Feedback

We are seeking feedback on these questions. Get in touch with us via our online contact form.

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Last updated: 4 March 2023

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