{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-11.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/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Security and United Kingdom representatives",
  "text": "(1) If the Commissioners have reason to believe that a person who is liable for the payment of MGD may not discharge that liability as it falls due from time to time, the Commissioners may make registration or continued registration conditional on that person—\n(a) providing such security for the payment of MGD as appears to the Commissioners to be appropriate; or\n(b) in the case of a foreign person, appointing a United Kingdom representative.\n(2) Where any person is appointed to be the United Kingdom representative of another person (“the principal”), and has consented to act in that capacity, the United Kingdom representative—\n(a) must act on the principal’s behalf for the purpose of making any payments or returns due in respect of MGD;\n(b) must secure (where appropriate by acting on the principal’s behalf), the principal’s compliance with and discharge of the obligations and liabilities that the principal is subject to in relation to MGD; and\n(c) is personally liable in respect of—\n(i) any failure to secure the principal’s compliance with or discharge of any such obligation or liability; and\n(ii) anything done for purposes connected with acting on the principal’s behalf,\nas if the obligations and liabilities imposed on the principal were imposed jointly and severally on the United Kingdom representative and the principal.\n(3) The United Kingdom representative must notify the Commissioners in writing within seven business days of ceasing to act for or on behalf of the principal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 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/11",
    "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."
}