Club gaming permit
A club gaming permit is available to members’ clubs or miners’ welfare institutes, but not commercial clubs. It allows the club to offer:
- equal chance gaming such as poker and bingo
- games of chance (pontoon and chemin de fer only)
- up to three gaming machines in total of categories B3A, B4, C or D, but by agreement, only one machine can be of category B3A.
Restrictions on the gaming are:
- no limits on stakes and prizes, except bingo where there is a stakes and prizes limit of £2,000 in any seven day period
- limit on participation fees per person per day - £20 for bridge and or whist (if played on a day on which no facilities of any kinds of gaming (other than bridge or whist) are provided by the relevant club on that day), £3 for other gaming (including poker) in any other circumstances
Club machine permit
A club machine permit is available to members’ clubs, miners’ welfare institutes, and commercial clubs. It allows the club to offer:
- equal chance gaming such as poker and bingo
- up to three gaming machines in total of categories B3A, B4, C or D, but by agreement, only one machine can be of category B3A (B3A not permitted for commercial clubs).
Restrictions on the gaming are:
- limit on stakes and prizes for bingo is £2,000 in any seven day period
- limit on stakes for poker - £10 per person per game, within a premises limit of £250 in stakes per day and £1,000 per week
- limit on prizes for poker - £250 per game
- limit on participation fees per person per day - £18 for bridge/whist (if played on a day on which no facilities of any kind of gaming (other than bridge or whist) are provided by the relevant club on that day), £1 for other gaming (including poker), £3 where it’s a commercial club.