{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-gaming-machines-and-betting-office-facilities-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-gaming-machines-and-betting-office-facilities-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1359",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Gaming Machines and Betting Office Facilities) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-gaming-machines-and-betting-office-facilities-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is made under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting out Act 1994. It reduces restrictions on business in three areas.\nArticles 3 and 4 amend the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 to increase the facilities ancillary to betting which may be provided in a licensed betting office.\nArticle 5 increases the number of jackpot gaming machines which may be used in premises licensed or registered under the Gaming Act 1968 from the present limit of two.\nArticle 6 relaxes the restrictions on use of machines for amusement purposes in the Gaming Act 1968 by permitting a cash-only machine which gives a maximum prize of £10 in premises to which children have restricted access.\nArticles 7 to 10 make various consequential and transitional provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1359/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:14.398558+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."
}