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(1)A person commits an offence if in the course of a business he manufactures, supplies, installs or adapts gambling software unless he acts in accordance with an operating licence.
(2)In this Act “gambling software”—
(a)means computer software for use in connection with remote gambling, but
(b)does not include anything for use solely in connection with a gaming machine.
(3)A person does not supply or install gambling software for the purposes of subsection (1) by reason only of the facts that—
(a)he makes facilities for remote communication or non-remote communication available to another person, and
(b)the facilities are used by the other person to supply or install gambling software.
(4)A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to—
(a)imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks,
(b)a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or
(c)both.
(5)In the application of subsection (4) to Scotland the reference to 51 weeks shall have effect as a reference to six months.
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