The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming in Clubs) Regulations 2007

• Citation: S.I. 2007/1942
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming in Clubs) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st August 2007.

(2) In these Regulations “ the Act ” means the Gambling Act 2005.

(3) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to that paragraph of Schedule 12 to the Act so numbered.

Section 2 Members’ clubs and commercial clubs

Bridge and whist are prescribed for the purposes of sections 266(2)(a) and 267(2)(a) of the Act (which provide that a club is respectively a members’ club or commercial club if it is established or conducted wholly or mainly to provide facilities for gaming of a prescribed kind, but for no other kind of gaming).

Section 3 Fast-track procedure

Bridge and whist are prescribed for the purposes of paragraphs 10(3)(a) and (b) (which enable licensing authorities to refuse applications to which paragraph 10 applies, if the applicant is established or conducted to provide either gaming other than gaming of the prescribed kinds, or gaming of the prescribed kinds and also gaming of another kind).