Provisions to ensure that existing operators can continue to operate on and after 1st September 2007
105.—(1) This paragraph applies to an application for a prize gaming permit which meets the conditions in paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph 102(1), but where in addition the application is made before 31st July 2007.
(2) The licensing authority must determine any such application within a period of one month beginning on the date on which the application is made.
(3) If the licensing authority do not determine the application within the period referred to in sub-paragraph (2)—
(a)the application is to be treated as having been granted, and
(b)the relevant prize gaming permit as having been issued to the applicant,
on the day immediately following the end of that period.
(4) Where by virtue of sub-paragraph (3) above a prize gaming permit is treated as having been issued to a person, paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 14 to the 2005 Act (which makes provision about the issuing of prize gaming permits) is to have effect as if it required the licensing authority to provide the applicant with a copy of the permit as soon as practicable on or after the date of issue.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph 12(1)(d) of Schedule 14 to the 1968 Act (which requires the date on which a prize gaming permit takes effect to be specified in the permit), the licensing authority are to specify 1st September 2007 as the date on which the prize gaming permit takes effect.