Gambling Act 2005
2005 CHAPTER 19
Territorial Extent
Territorial limits – vessels and aircraft
Schedule 6: Exchange of information: persons and bodies
Part 3: General Offences
Section 40: Exception: football pools
156.Holders of a pool betting operating licence, under section 93, can authorise people who are not their employees to dispense coupons, collect entries and stakes, and pay winnings, on football pools competitions. Collectors can operate, for example, door to door, or from ordinary retail premises such as newsagents.
157.This section provides an exception for such people from the premises offence in this Part. Collectors can therefore use premises to accept football pools entries, or pay out winnings without committing that offence. Subsection (2) gives the Secretary of State power to make regulations, to disapply this concession to particular types of premises.
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