Paragraph 18 Duration of section 27 certificatesI1
England, Wales and Scotland
Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a section 27 certificate is to have effect—
where the application for the certificate is granted on or after 1st September 2007, for a period of 5 years beginning on the date on which the certificate is issued; or
in any other case, until the date on which, as the certificate had effect immediately before 1st September 2007, it was due to expire in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the 1968 Act.
Where the holder of a section 27 certificate applies for a gaming machine technical operating licence at least two months before the date on which the certificate is due to expire, the certificate is not to cease to have effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) before that application is finally determined or is withdrawn.
A section 27 certificate is to cease to have effect before the date determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) if before that date the holder of the certificate is granted a gaming machine technical operating licence.
Where sub-paragraph (3) applies, the certificate is to cease to have effect immediately before the gaming machine technical operating licence has effect.
This paragraph is without prejudice to sections 113 to 115 and 119 of the 2005 Act (which provide respectively for the surrender, lapse, forfeiture and revocation of operating licences) as those sections have effect in relation to section 27 certificates by virtue of paragraphs 20 and 21.
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Commencement
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Sch. 4 para. 18 in force at 1.1.2007, see art. 1(1)