Conditions
Mandatory conditions relevant to family entertainment centres
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is empowered to make mandatory conditions by regulation, which may apply to all premises licences or specified classes of licence.
The conditions are:
- a prominent notice stating that no alcohol may be consumed at any time facilities for gambling are being provided is to be displayed at every entrance
- a summary of the licence is to be displayed in prominent place
- a prominent notice must be displayed at the entrance to any Category C machine area, prohibiting entry to people less than 18 years old
- there must be no entrance from a casino, adult gaming centre or betting premises (other than a track)
- the layout of the premises is to be maintained in accordance with the plan
- any Category C gaming area is to be separated by a physical barrier, supervised to prevent entrance by under-18s and arranged to permit surveillance by staff or monitored closed-circuit television (CCTV)
- the premises are not to be used for sale of tickets in a private or customer lottery or National Lottery
- automatic teller machines (ATMs) are to be located so that users must cease gambling to use them.
Default conditions relevant to family entertainment centres
The Secretary of State is empowered to make default conditions by regulation, which may apply to all premises licences or specified classes of licence.
There is one such condition:
- gaming machines may be used 24 hours a day.
Individual conditions
The council may attach individual conditions to non-fast track applications, new applications and variation applications. These conditions may apply to all of the premises or to a specified part of them.
The authority will ensure that the premises licence conditions are:
- relevant to the need to make the proposed building suitable as a gambling facility
- directly related to the premises and the type of licence applied for
- reasonably related to the scale and type of premises
- reasonable in all other respects.
Prohibition
None of the conditions may:
- require the premises to operate as a club
- limit stakes, fees, winnings or prizes
- alter the statutory permissions for gaming machines in licensed premises or override provisions of regulations relating to machines.
Christmas Day
All premises licences are subject to a condition that they may not be used to provide gambling facilities on Christmas Day.