Gambling
Gambling Act 2005
The Gambling Commission is responsible for issuing operating licences and personal licences as well as for the regulation of remote gambling including gambling via the Internet, a phone, TV, computer etc.
Our main responsibilities are to:
- Licence premises for gambling (casino, bingo and betting premises - including tracks, adult gaming centres and family entertainment centres)
- Look at notices given for the temporary use of premises for gambling
- Grant permits for gaming and gaming machines in clubs and miners' welfare institutes
- Regulate gaming and gaming machines in alcohol licensed premises (pubs)
- Grant permits to family entertainment centres for the use of certain lower stake gaming machines
- Grant permits for prize gaming
- Look at occasional use notices for betting at tracks
- Register small society lotteries
In determining premises licence applications, we will be guided by codes of practice and guidance issued by the Gambling Commission, together with our own Gambling Policy and three licensing objectives:
- preventing gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with crime or disorder or being used to support crime;
- ensuring that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way; and
- protecting children and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling.
