The Gaming (Gaming Machines in Registered Clubs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Made: 10th February 2025

Coming into operation: 4th March 2025

The Department for Communities[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 106(5) of The Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as The Gaming (Gaming Machines in Registered Clubs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 4th March 2025.

Maximum prize in respect of any one game played by means of a gaming machine in a registered club

2

For the purposes of Article 106(5) (use of gaming machines in registered clubs) of The Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 the prescribed amount is £400.

Revocation

3

The Gaming (Bingo (Amendment) and Gaming Machine (Registered Clubs)) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999[^f00004] are revoked.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 10th February 2025.

Gerard Murray — A senior officer of the Department

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations prescribe £400 for the purposes of Article 106(5) of The Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, as the maximum prize in respect of any one game played by means of a gaming machine in a registered club.

These Regulations also revoke the Gaming (Bingo (Amendment) and Gaming Machine (Registered Clubs)) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.

An Equality Impact Assessment has been prepared and can be viewed at www.communities-ni.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department for Social Development; see 2016 c.5 (N.I.), section 1(7)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985 No. 1204 (N.I. 11)

[^f00003]: See S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 8(b) and Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 transferred functions to the Department for Social Development which were previously exercisable by the Department of Health and Social Services; see the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.). Under section 1 the Department for Social Development was renamed the Department for Communities

[^f00004]: S.R. 1999 No. 5

Editorial notes

[^key-0964a84b79a8d7ce99300be417a8d5c8]: Reg. 1 in operation at 4.3.2025, see reg. 1

[^key-75733eb97f25f156d0ca5ec268ccf0b6]: Reg. 2 in operation at 4.3.2025, see reg. 1

[^key-b65ec68920a24d292e1f210e8c4c1c9c]: Reg. 3 in operation at 4.3.2025, see reg. 1