{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-special-licences-regulations-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-special-licences-regulations-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1423",
  "legislation_title": "The Amusement Machine Licence Duty (Special Licences) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/amusement-machine-licence-duty-special-licences-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 1 July 1996, determine who may apply for a special amusement machine licence. They also allow the Commissioners to make directions concerning the display of a special amusement machine licence and the marking of any machine to which a special licence applies. Regulation 5 is concerned with the application of Schedule 4 to the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c. 63) to special licences. Generally the Schedule applies except that—\n(a) special licences will only be transferable where the holder dies;\n(b) a person may not surrender a special licence if he would be left holding between one and nine special licences after that surrender;\n(c) the requirements to be observed by a licence holder imposed by paragraph 12 of the Schedule will not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1423/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:54.234504+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}