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Gambling Commission looks at Fee structure!

- 12 October 2011

  One of the matters that the Gambling Commission / Government received criticism over when Gambling underwent wholesale reform in 2007 was the significant increase in fees that operators of Gambling premises (in particular Betting Offices) experienced as compared with the old regime. The DCMS...

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Personal Licences under the Gambling Act 2005

- 22 September 2011

  With Gambling reform in 2007 the unfamiliar concept of personal licences was introduced. This was in part a nod to personal licences in liquor licensing however they are very different and cover not only certain operational personnel (personal functional licences) but also those involved in more...

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Online Gambling Regulation

- 23 August 2011

A few days before Parliament entered its summer recess DCMS Minister John Penrose announced expected measures regarding the regulation of overseas online gaming providers. In a statement Penrose announced: “British consumers face different consumer protection arrangements and have to deal with...

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Betting Shops Bill 2010-11 - The return of the "Demand Test"???

- 20 July 2011

  For nearly 50 years the “Betting Circus” travelled the length and breadth of England and Wales with applications for new betting offices being made to local Magistrates’ Courts which inevitably attracted objections principally by the leading bookmakers under the Betting Gaming...

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