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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-94",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-94.json",
  "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/94",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Meaning of existing operator for the purposes of applications for family entertainment centre gaming machine permits",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph specifies the circumstances in which a person applying for a family entertainment centre gaming machine permit (referred to in this Part as a “FEC gaming machine permit”) is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as an existing family entertainment centre operator.\n(2) A person is an existing family entertainment centre operator if on the date on which he makes the application for the FEC gaming machine permit—\n(a) he holds a permit under section 34 of the 1968 Act (referred to in this Part as a “section 34 permit”)—\n(i) granted by one of the authorities mentioned in paragraph 1(b) or (d) of Schedule 9 to the 1968 Act in respect of amusement machine premises, and\n(ii) which is expressed to be granted for the purposes of section 34(1) of the 1968 Act; or\n(b) he is applying for such a permit, and the application (including any appeal) has not been finally determined or withdrawn.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 94 in force at 1.1.2007, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 34 was amended by S.I. 1996/1359 and S.I. 2003/3275."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 1 was partially repealed by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30. Sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 1 was amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 24, paragraph 32, and by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Schedule 13, paragraph 78(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Subsection (1) was amended by S.I. 1996/1359."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3272/schedule/4/paragraph/94",
    "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."
}