SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12Club Gaming Permits and Club Machine Permits

Consideration of application

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1

A licensing authority may refuse an application for a permit only on one or more of the following grounds (having regard to the matters mentioned in paragraph 27)—

a

that the applicant is not—

i

in the case of an application for a club gaming permit, a members' club or a miners' welfare institute, or

ii

in the case of an application for a club machine permit, a members' club, a commercial club or a miners' welfare institute,

b

that the premises on which the applicant conducts its activities are used wholly or mainly by children, by young persons or by both,

c

that an offence, or a breach of a condition of a permit, has been committed in the course of gaming activities carried on by the applicant,

d

that a permit held by the applicant has been cancelled during the period of ten years ending with the date of the application, or

e

that an objection to the application has been made under paragraph 4.

2

If a licensing authority are satisfied in relation to an application for a permit of the matters specified in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b), they shall refuse the application.