{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2500",
  "legislation_title": "The Machine Games Duty Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Compulsory Registration",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this regulation “R” means a person whom the Commissioners believe to be a registrable person for MGD, but who is not registered.\n(2) If the Commissioners issue a registration notice (“RN”) to R in accordance with paragraph 23(2) of the Schedule, it must contain the following information—\n(a) R’s name;\n(b) the date of issue;\n(c) the address of each premises to which the notice relates;\n(d) the reason why R is believed to be a registrable person in respect of each premises;\n(e) the date by which R is required to respond to the RN;\n(f) details of any information that R is required to provide from the list in Schedule 1 (and the form it should take);\n(g) the consequences of failing to respond to the RN (including failing to provide all of the information required by the RN);\n(h) the address to which the response (or any correspondence pertaining to the response) must be sent.\n(3) Nothing in this Part precludes the Commissioners from issuing more than one RN to R at any given time in respect of different premises.\n(4) If the Commissioners issue an RN to R for more than one premises—\n(a) in the belief that R is registrable in respect of all of the premises listed in the RN; and\n(b) R satisfies the Commissioners that R is not registrable in respect of one or more of the premises,\nthe RN will remain valid in respect of the premises for which R is registrable under paragraph 23 of the Schedule.\n(5) If R appeals against the RN under paragraph 23 of the Schedule and—\n(a) the notice relates to more than one premises;\n(b) the appeal does not relate to all of the premises specified in the RN; and\n(c) thirty days have elapsed from the date of the RN,\nthe Commissioners may register R in respect of the premises which are not the subject of an appeal.\n(6) If R is registered in respect of any premises under paragraph 23 of the Schedule, the Commissioners must send to R a copy of the entry in the register within seven business days.\n(7) If further information about R becomes available to the Commissioners after they have registered R, the Commissioners may update the register with that information (and, if they do so, must send to R a copy of the updated entry within seven business days).\n(8) If R is a registrable person at the date of the RN, but ceases to be a registrable person after the date of the RN, the Commissioners may—\n(a) register R from the date of the RN; and\n(b) de-register R from the date at which R ceases to be a registrable person,\nand must notify R accordingly.\n(9) Any information or notification required to be sent by the Commissioners to R under this regulation must be sent to R’s last known residence or place of business by registered post or the recorded delivery service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.11.2012, see reg. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2500/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:40.309650+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."
}