State visit
The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and Mrs Brigitte Macron will visit Windsor, under invite from the King, from Tuesday 8 July to Thursday 10 July 2025. Find out more.
From 1 September 2007 the Gambling Act 2005 replaced the previous regime for the regulation of gambling.
Local authorities already issue a number of permits or registrations for activities under existing gambling legislation.
Under the Gambling Act 2005, the Licensing Authority will be responsible for dealing with the following permits and registrations:
Unlike premises licence fees, permit fees are prescribed by the Government and therefore licensing authorities have no discretion in this matter. For information only, at the time of writing, the only permit fees which have yet been prescribed are for Family Entertainment Centre Gaming Machines and Prize Gaming which are summarised below: