{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-family-entertainment-centre-gaming-machine-permits-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-family-entertainment-centre-gaming-machine-permits-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Gambling Act 2005 (Family Entertainment Centre Gaming Machine) (Permits) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-family-entertainment-centre-gaming-machine-permits-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Gambling Act 2005;\n“existing operator” means a person who—\n(a) makes an application for a permit before 1st September 2007;\n(b) on the date on which he makes the application—\n(i) holds a permit issued under section 34 of the Gaming Act 1968 (a “section 34 permit”), or\n(ii) is applying to the appropriate authority (within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 to the Gaming Act 1968) for a section 34 permit, and the application (including any appeal) has not been finally determined; and\n(c) the application relates to the same or substantially the same premises as those to which the section 34 permit, or the application for a section 34 permit, relates.\n“permit” means a family entertainment centre gaming machine permit;\n(2) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to that paragraph of Schedule 10 to the Act so numbered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c.65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “family entertainment centre gaming machine permit” see section 247(2) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/454/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:45.598028+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."
}