{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-betting-and-gaming-northern-ireland-order-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-betting-and-gaming-northern-ireland-order-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110491297",
  "legislation_title": "The Betting and Gaming (Northern Ireland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-betting-and-gaming-northern-ireland-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985—\n(a) to enable on-course betting to take place on Sunday and to provide for the rights of betting workers in relation to Sunday working;\n(b) to transfer the grant of bookmaking office licences from courts of summary jurisdiction to county courts;\n(c) to relax the restrictions on licensed bookmaking offices;\n(d) to allow on-course bookmakers to take bets on any event and have permanent structures for bookmaking on licensed tracks and to allow track occupiers certain bookmaking interests on their own tracks;\n(e) to reduce the waiting period for non-sporting clubs seeking registration to one year;\n(f) to allow gaming machines in licensed bookmaking offices and to relax the restrictions on gaming machines in other premises;\n(g) to provide for the grant of a new amusement permit which permits a cash-only machine which gives maximum prizes of £25 in premises to which children have restricted access;\n(h) to allow advertising of bingo; and\n(i) to make other minor amendments to that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110491297/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:08.702875+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."
}