{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-247",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-247.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/19",
  "legislation_title": "Gambling Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005",
  "path": "section/247",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "247",
  "heading": "Family entertainment centre gaming machine permit",
  "text": "(1) A person does not commit an offence under section 37 or 242 if he makes a Category D gaming machine available for use in accordance with a family entertainment centre gaming machine permit.\n(2) A family entertainment centre gaming machine permit is a permit issued by a licensing authority authorising a person to make Category D gaming machines available for use in a specified family entertainment centre.\n(3) Schedule 10 makes further provision about family entertainment centre gaming machine permits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 247(1) in force at 1.9.2007 by S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(4)(5), Sch. 3B (with arts. 7-11, 7-12, Sch. 4) (as inserted by S.I. 2007/2169, arts. 3, 6, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 247(2) in force at 13.11.2006 by S.I. 2006/2964, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 247(3) in force at 13.11.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/2964, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 247(3) in force at 21.5.2007 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 (with arts. 7-11, 7-12, Sch. 4) (as amended by S.I. 2007/1157, arts. 3(3), 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/247",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:42.684927+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}