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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gaming-bingo-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/233",
  "legislation_title": "Gaming (Bingo) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gaming-bingo-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations revoke and replace the Gaming (Bingo) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (“the 1987 Regulations”) with effect from 1st August 2003.\nRegulation 2 prescribes:\n(a) £10 per day as the maximum amount a person may be charged for admission to bingo club premises; and\n(b) £5 as the maximum amount a person may be charged for each chance to participate in a game of bingo on those premises.\nThese provisions replace the requirement in the 1987 Regulations that the aggregate bingo charges, during a charging period of at least two hours duration, should not exceed £10.\nRegulation 2 also makes new provision, requiring the display of:\n(a) a notice of the admission charge at or near the principal entrance to the bingo club premises;\n(b) in the case of other charges in respect of gaming by way of bingo, a notice, at the payment point or main payment point, showing:\n(i) the date from which the notice is operative;\n(ii) the name of each ticket or game (or set of tickets or games) to be played during the currency of the notice;\n(iii) the cost to a player of each ticket or game (or set of tickets or games) i.e. stake and participation charge;\n(iv) the participation charge which can be made for each ticket or game (or set of tickets or games);\n(v) a statement that all or part of the charge may be waived.\nThe notices may be in electronic form.\nRegulation 3 specifies the information to be displayed before each game of bingo, or series of games, has ended. This information may be displayed in electronic form.\nRegulation 4 revokes the Gaming (Bingo) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and the Gaming (Bingo) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/233/note",
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  "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."
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