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  "long_title": "Section 236 of the Gambling Act 2005 (“the Act”) requires regulations to be made defining four classes of gaming machine, to be known as Categories A, B, C and D. “Gaming Machine” is defined in section 235 of the Act. These Regulations provide the necessary definitions for each category, A to D. These Regulations also provide definitions for five sub-divisions of the Category B machine, to be known as sub-categories B1, B2, B3, B3A and B4.",
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