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The Gambling Act 2005 received Royal Assent on the 7th April 2005 and intends to comprehensively modernise the law on gambling and introduces a powerful regulator for gambling, the Gambling Commission which will come out of the existing Gaming Board for Great Britain. The Act also gives responsibility for the licensing of gambling premises to Local Authorities.
The Act will be fully operational during the autumn of 2007. Key dates and milestones for implementation of the Act have been published by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). Information relating to progress with the Gambling Act 2005 is available off their website at www.culture.gov.uk.
Copies of the Gambling Act can be obtained from the Her Majesty's Stationery Office website and from Stationery Office bookshops.
The new Act requires three types of licence:
Operators licences and personal licences will be issued and regulated by the Gambling commission whilst local authorities will be responsible for the issue and regulation of premises licences.
A copy of the document showing the different application fees set by this Authority under the Gambling Act can be downloaded here (pdf document size 98KB).
You can download a copy of our Licensing Newsletter (pdf file size 101 KB) which contains information on implementing the (almost) first year of the Licensing Act and concerning the Gambling Act
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