{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-gaming-tables-in-casinos-definitions-regulations-2009/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-gaming-tables-in-casinos-definitions-regulations-2009/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1970",
  "legislation_title": "The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005-gaming-tables-in-casinos-definitions-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 11th August 2009.\n(2) In these Regulations “wholly automated gaming table” means an apparatus that is designed or adapted to enable individuals to play a real game of chance where—\n(a) the design or adaptation is such that the apparatus is not required to be controlled or operated by an individual employed or concerned in arranging for others to play the game; and\n(b) the apparatus is not designed or adapted for use in connection with a game the arrangements for which are controlled or operated by an individual.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 353(1) of the Act “real” in relation to, inter alia, a game is defined as “non-virtual”. The meaning of “virtual” is given in subsection (3). A “game of chance” is defined in section 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/503",
      "affecting_title": "The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1970/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:08:11.499311+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."
}