My arcades business includes adult gaming centres and family entertainment centres, who issues my licences?
For your adult gaming centres you need to apply to the Gambling Commission for a gaming machine general operating licence. If in your family entertainment centres you have category D and category C gaming machines you will need to apply to the Commission for a gaming machine general operating licence. However, if you have only Category D machines you will need to obtain a gaming machine permit from your local authority. The categories are determined by the maximum amount of the stake and the maximum prize as shown in Table 1 below Current proposals for the different categories are as shown in the table below but are subject to future change.
