These Regulations repeal three provisions of the Gambling Act 2005: subsections 89(2) and (3) (remote operating licence) which make it a condition of all remote operating licences that an operator’s remote gambling equipment be located in Great Britain (subsection (2)), subject to a discretion for the Gambling Commission to exclude that condition to a general or specified extent (subsection (3)); subsection 117(1)(d), which is consequential to the repeal of subsection 89(3), and concerns the use of subsection 89(3) as a regulatory power following a licence review by the Gambling Commission; and section 245 (credit) which makes it an offence for a person to supply, install or make available a gaming machine which is designed or adapted to permit money to be paid by credit card.

These Regulations ensure that the UK’s obligations to notify technical standards in draft to the European Commission, under the Technical Standards Directive (Directive 98/34/EC, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC), can be complied with. Equivalent measures to those contained in the repealed provisions will be achieved by alternative means, and notified to the European Commission as appropriate.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared as these Regulations are a technical instrument.