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Where a licence is shown as active, this indicates that the licensee holds a licence that they are able to operate under.
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This licence entitles you to manage lotteries on behalf of a non-commercial society or local authority. The external lottery manager should not be a member, officer or contracted employee of the society or local authority for whom they are managing lotteries. Find out more about licences for lotteries.
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This licence entitles you to manufacture, supply, install and adapt gambling software. This includes, for example, software for a hand-held terminal that facilitates the playing of bingo games or software for an automated roulette machine as well as software for online gambling. Find out more about licences for gambling software.
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This licence entitles you to make gaming machines available for use in an adult gaming centre (premises to which only persons aged 18 or over have access). Find out more about licence for arcades.
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This licence entitles you to provide facilities for betting from premises. This licence also permits the provision of betting facilities on tracks/courses. Find out more about types of betting licence.
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This licence only authorises you to provide facilities for pool betting by means of terminals on licensed track premises, when the liability for bets placed via those terminals rests with the licensee who operates the track premises. Find out more about types of betting licence.
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This licence entitles you to provide facilities for the playing of bingo by remote communication (for example by internet or mobile phone). Find out more about licences for remote gambling.
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This licence entitles you to provide facilities for the playing of casino games and/or participation in other virtual gaming by remote communication (for example roulette, blackjack, poker, reel games). Find out more about licences for remote gambling.
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This licence entitles you to manufacture, supply, install and adapt gambling software for electronic devices or websites. It allows such activities to be done by remote means (for example sending software updates online via file transfer protocol). Find out more about licences for gambling software businesses.
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This licence entitles you to manufacture, supply, install and adapt software for a gaming machine, by means of remote communication (for example file transfer protocol). Find out more about types of gaming machine licence.
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This licence entitles you to provide facilities for betting only on virtual events, races or processes by means of remote communication (for example betting on the outcome of a virtual greyhound race, virtual horse race, a virtual football game or virtual penalty shoot-out). Find out more about types of betting licence.
The Commission carried out an investigation into the Ladbrokes Coral Group (now owned by GVC) which identified that Ladbrokes and Coral had failed to put into place effective safeguards to prevent customers suffering gambling harm and against money laundering.
The investigation found:
Continual breaches of Licence condition 12.1 to comply with Money Laundering Regulations 2007
Continual breaches of social responsibility code provision 3.4.1 (customer interaction)
In line with our Statement of principles for licensing and
regulation, the Ladbrokes Coral Group has agreed to a regulatory settlement
consisting of:
A payment in lieu of financial penalty of £4.8m which will go to the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms
A divestment of £1.1m where it has been found, or could reasonably be suspected to be, Proceeds of Crime
GVC engaging an external UK firm of solicitors to review five further customer accounts identified by the Commission and will divest itself of any GGY as directed
GVC will employ an external UK firm of solicitors to undertake the
following within a reasonable time and report findings to the Commission:
Agreement to the publication of a statement of the facts in relation to the case
Payment towards our investigative costs
For more information, please see the Commission’s public statement which can be found on our website.
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A status of inactive means that the operator is no longer using this domain name
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A status of active means that the operator is currently using this trading name.
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A status of inactive means that the operator is no longer using this trading name
If your search does not return results try using just a single word to search (for example instead of ‘Acorn and Horsetree Betting’ just search for ‘Acorn’).
Avoid words that could apply to lots of operators. For example limited, bookmakers, London or casino.
Searching with a licence number
If you have a licence number from an operator and want to locate the public register record you will need to do the following.
A licence number is usually in the following format 000-012345-N-987654-001. You need to search for the numbers in the first block of 6 digits, removing any leading zeros where they exist. So in this example search for the reference 12345
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