Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 1942
betting, gaming and lotteries
The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming in Clubs) Regulations 2007
Made
7th July 2007
Laid before Parliament
9th July 2007
Coming into force
1st August 2007
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 266(2)(a), 267(2)(a) and paragraphs 10(3)(a) and (b) of Schedule 12 to the Gambling Act 2005( 1 ).
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming in Clubs) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st August 2007.
(2) In these Regulations “the Act” means the Gambling Act 2005.
(3) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to that paragraph of Schedule 12 to the Act so numbered.
Members’ clubs and commercial clubs
2. Bridge and whist are prescribed for the purposes of sections 266(2)(a) and 267(2)(a) of the Act (which provide that a club is respectively a members’ club or commercial club if it is established or conducted wholly or mainly to provide facilities for gaming of a prescribed kind, but for no other kind of gaming).
Fast-track procedure
3. Bridge and whist are prescribed for the purposes of paragraphs 10(3)(a) and (b) (which enable licensing authorities to refuse applications to which paragraph 10 applies, if the applicant is established or conducted to provide either gaming other than gaming of the prescribed kinds, or gaming of the prescribed kinds and also gaming of another kind).
Gerry Sutcliffe
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
7th July 2007
2005 c.19 ; for the meaning of ‘prescribed’ in sections 266 and 267 of the Act, see section 276 of the Act; for the meaning of ‘prescribed’ in Schedule 12 to the Act, see paragraph 30 of Schedule 12 to the Act.