The Gambling (Operating Licence and Single-Machine Permit Fees) Regulations 2017

Fees for applications to vary operating licences

36.—(1) Subject to regulation 37, the fee to accompany an application under section 104(1)(a) to vary a licence by adding or amending a licensed activity is 25 per cent of the application fee for an operating licence that would only authorise the licensee to engage in the licensed activity to be added.

(2) The fee to accompany an application under section 104(1)(a) to vary a licence by removing a licensed activity is £25.

(3) Except as provided in paragraphs (4), (5) and (10), the fee to accompany an application under section 104(1)(b) to vary a licence by amending another detail of the licence is £25.

(4) Where an application has been made under section 104(1)(b) to vary a non-remote general betting (standard) operating licence or a non-remote general betting (limited) operating licence, the fee specified in paragraph (3) is not payable in respect of any application under section 104(1)(b) to vary a general betting (remote platform) operating licence to the same extent.

(5) The fee specified in paragraph (3) is not payable if the sole purpose of the application is to reflect a change of name for an individual.

(6) Except as provided in paragraph (10) and regulation 37, the fee to accompany an application under section 104(1)(c) to vary a condition attached to a licence shall be determined in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(7) Where the effect of the application (if granted) would be—

(a) to bring the licence within a new category (in accordance with regulation 6 or 11); or

(b) otherwise to permit the licensee to increase or reduce its annual gross gambling yield, value of gross annual sales, annual gross gaming yield or annual proceeds,

the fee is £25.

(8) In any other case, the fee is 25 per cent of the application fee for an operating licence in the category to which the condition sought to be varied relates.

(9) But if the condition which it is sought to vary relates to more than one category, the fee shall be 25 per cent of the highest of the application fees payable for operating licences in the categories to which the condition relates.

(10) The fee to accompany an application referred to in paragraph (3) or (6) is £100 where—

(a) the application is to vary a licence so as to change a reference to an individual, to an office or a post held by an individual, or to the responsibilities of an individual, an office or a post; and

(b) the change is of a kind in respect of which the Commission had published a notice (on its website and by any other means it considered appropriate) before the application was made, to the effect that such a change requires it to examine the criminal record of any person before making the change.