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The Gaming Machine (Single Apparatus) Regulations 2007

S.I. 2007/2289 · Made 27 July 2007

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betting, gaming and lotteries

Made 27th July 2007

Laid before Parliament 2nd August 2007

Coming into force 1st September 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 235(5) of the Gambling Act 2005f1, makes the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2005 c.19.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Single apparatus
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations shall be cited as the Gaming Machine (Single Apparatus) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 1st September 2007.

2Single apparatus

For the purposes of the Gambling Act 2005, where a single piece of apparatus is—

(a)

a gaming machine, and

(b)

made available for use to more than one person at a time,

it is to be treated as the number of gaming machines equal to the number of people able to use it at that time.

Signature

Gerry Sutcliffe

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

27th July 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations )

Section 235 of the Gambling Act 2005 defines a “gaming machine”. Subsection (5) contains a power to provide for circumstances in which a single piece of apparatus which is a gaming machine, is to be treated as more than one gaming machine.

Regulation 2 provides that each player position at such single apparatus is to be treated as one gaming machine.