GuidanceIs BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025
Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025
The Gambling Commission's guidance for licensing authorities.
Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025
- Changes to the Guidance for Licensing Authorities
- Part 1: General guidance on the role and responsibilities of licensing authorities in gambling regulation
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- Introduction
- Partnership working between the Commission and licensing authorities – shared regulation
- Co-ordination and contact
- Primary legislation
- Statutory aim to permit gambling
- The licensing objectives
- Codes of practice
- Licensing authority discretion (s.153 of the Act)
- Local risk assessments
- Licensing authority policy statement
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Limits on licensing authority discretion
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Other powers
- Part 2: The licensing framework
- Part 3: The Gambling Commission
- Part 4: Licensing authorities
- Part 5: Principles to be applied by licensing authorities
- Part 6: Licensing authority policy statement
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- Introduction
- Fundamental principles
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Form and content
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Other matters to be considered
- Local risk assessments
- Local area profile
- Declaration by licensing authority
- Consultation
- Reviewing and updating the policy statement
- Advertisement and publication
- Additional information to be made available
- Part 7: Premises licences
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Part 8: Responsible authorities and interested parties definitions
- Part 9: Premises licence conditions
- Part 10: Review of premises licence by licensing authority
- Part 11: Provisional statements
- Part 12: Rights of appeal and judicial review
- Part 13: Information exchange
- Part 14: Temporary use notices
- Part 15: Occasional use notices
- Part 16: Gaming machines
- Part 17: Casinos
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- Casino premises
- Casino games
- Protection of children and young persons
- The process for issuing casino premises licences
- Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025Resolutions not to issue casino licences
- Converted casinos (with preserved rights under Schedule 18 of the Act)
- Casino premises licence conditions
- Mandatory conditions – small casino premises licences
- Mandatory conditions – converted casino premises licences
- Default conditions attaching to all casino premises licences
- Self-exclusion
- Part 18: Bingo
- Part 19: Betting premises
- Part 20: Tracks
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- Definition of a track
- Track premises licences – differences from other premises licences
- Betting on tracks
- Licences and other permissions for the provision of betting facilities
- Betting on event and non-event days
- Social responsibility considerations for tracks
- Gaming machines
- Self-service betting terminals (SSBTs)
- Applications
- Licence conditions and requirements
- Part 21: Adult gaming centres
- Part 22: Licensed family entertainment centres
- Part 23: Introduction to permits
- Part 24: Unlicensed family entertainment centres
- Part 25: Clubs
- Part 26: Premises licensed to sell alcohol
- Part 27: Prize gaming and prize gaming permits
- Part 28: Non-commercial and private gaming, betting and lotteries
- Part 29: Poker
- Part 30: Travelling fairs
- Part 31: Crown immunity and excluded premises
- Part 32: Territorial application of the Gambling Act 2005
- Part 33: Door supervision
- Part 34: Small society lotteries
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- Small society lotteries
- The status of lotteries under the Act
- Licensing authority guidance
- Social responsibility
- External lottery managers’ licence status
- Lottery tickets
- Prizes
- Specific offences in relation to lotteries
- Application and registration process for small society lotteries
- Administration and returns
- Part 35: Chain gift schemes
- Part 36: Compliance and enforcement matters
- Appendix A: Summary of machine provisions by premises
- Appendix B: Summary of gaming machine categories and entitlements
- Appendix C: Summary of gaming entitlements for clubs and alcohol-licensed premises
- Appendix D: Summary of offences under the Gambling Act 2005
- Appendix E: Summary of statutory application forms and notices
- Appendix F: Inspection powers
- Appendix G: Licensing authority delegations
- Appendix H: Poker games and prizes
- Appendix I: Glossary of terms
Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025
Is BitStarz Safe to Use? Complete Guide 2025
- 1 - Fees The Gambling Commission's guidance on fees for licensing authorities.
- 2 - Enforcement officers and authorised persons The Gambling Commission's guidance on enforcement officers and authorised persons for licensing authorities.
- 3 - Powers of entry – England and Wales The Gambling Commission's guidance on powers of entry in England and Wales for licensing authorities.
- 4 - Powers of entry in Scotland The Gambling Commission's guidance on powers of entry in Scotland for licensing authorities.
- 5 - Illegal gambling The Gambling Commission's guidance on illegal gambling for licensing authorities.
- 6 - Test purchasing and age verification The Gambling Commission's guidance on test purchasing for licensing authorities.
- 7 - Primary Authority The Gambling Commission's guidance on primary authorities for licensing authorities.
- 8 - Prosecutions The Gambling Commission's guidance on prosecutions for licensing authorities.
- 9 - Other powers The Gambling Commission's guidance on other enforcement powers for licensing authorities.
- 10 - Case law, templates and case studies The Gambling Commission's guide to enforcement case studies for licensing authorities.
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Appendix A: Summary of machine provisions by premises
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