The Gambling Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006

Fast track applications: modification of provisions of the Gambling Act 2005

57.—(1) This paragraph applies to a conversion application which is not a non-fast track application.

(2) In this Part any reference to a fast track application is to an application to which this paragraph applies.

(3) Part 8 of the 2005 Act is to have effect subject to the modifications specified below.

(4) Section 160(1) of the 2005 Act (which enables the Secretary of State by regulations to require applicants for premises licences to give notice of their applications) is to have effect as if the reference in that provision to an applicant for a premises licence did not include a person making a fast track application.

(5) Sections 161 and 162 of that Act (which respectively provide for representations to be made by persons with respect to premises licence applications, and specify the circumstances in which a hearing is to take place) are not to apply to fast track applications.

(6) The powers of the licensing authority under section 169(1) of the 2005 Act—

(a) to attach conditions on issuing a premises licence, and

(b) to exclude a condition that would otherwise be attached to the licence by virtue of regulations under section 168 of that Act,

are not to apply to a licence issued on a fast track application.

(7) A person may make either a fast-track or a non-fast track application, but not both in respect of the same premises; and, where a person submits both a fast-track and a non-fast track application, the licensing authority must reject the non-fast track application.