{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-291",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-291.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/19",
  "legislation_title": "Gambling Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005",
  "path": "section/291",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "291",
  "heading": "Bingo halls",
  "text": "(1) A person does not commit an offence under section 33 or 37 by providing facilities for prize gaming in premises in respect of which a bingo premises licence has effect.\n(2) A condition may be attached under section 75 or 78 to an operating licence so as—\n(a) to prevent facilities for a specified description of game from being provided in reliance on subsection (1), or\n(b) to provide for subsection (1) to apply, whether generally or only in connection with a specified description of game, subject to specified conditions or only in specified circumstances.\n(3) A condition attached under section 78 by virtue of subsection (2) above may, in particular, relate to a matter listed in section 91(1).\n(4) Subsection (1) may not be disapplied or modified—\n(a) by way of a condition attached to an operating licence under section 77, or\n(b) by way of a condition attached to a premises licence under section 167, 168 or 169.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 291(1) restricted (28.7.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2257), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 291 in force at 1.1.2007 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 7-11, 7-12, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 291 in force at 1.9.2007 in so far as not already in force 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.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/291",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:42.684927+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."
}