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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-67",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3272",
  "legislation_title": "The Gambling Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/67",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Conversion of society registrations into lottery operating licences",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) a society is registered under Schedule 1A to the 1976 Act, and\n(b) the registration has effect immediately before 1st September 2007.\n(2) This paragraph also applies where a society is registered under Schedule 1A to the 1976 Act on or after 1st September 2007.\n(3) The Gambling Commission must issue a lottery operating licence to the society on the relevant date or as soon as practicable after that date.\n(4) Such a licence—\n(a) is referred to in this paragraph and in paragraph 68 as a converted society lottery operating licence, and\n(b) is included in any reference to a converted lottery operating licence in paragraphs 71 and 72.\n(5) A converted society lottery operating licence is to have effect as both a remote and non-remote lottery operating licence; and section 67(2) and (3) of the 2005 Act (which prohibits an operating licence from being both a remote and non-remote licence) is not to apply to the licence.\n(6) In exercising its powers under section 75 of the 2005 Act (powers of Gambling Commission to impose general conditions on operating licences), the Commission must specify any conditions which are to apply to—\n(a) a converted society lottery operating licence, or\n(b) a converted society lottery operating licence falling within a specified class.\n(7) Regulations under section 78 of the 2005 Act (which allows the Secretary of State to make regulations specifying conditions to be imposed on operating licences) may specify conditions which are to apply to a converted society lottery operating licence or to converted society lottery operating licences falling within a specified description.\n(8) In this paragraph a reference to the relevant date is to—\n(a) 1st September 2007, or\n(b) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (2), the date on which the society is registered under Schedule 1A to the 1976 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 67 in force at 1.1.2007, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1A was inserted by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, section 48(5) and Part 2 of Schedule 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3272/schedule/4/paragraph/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:39.535145+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."
}