Gambling licensing policy

Temporary Use Notices (TUN's) should not be confused with Temporary Event Notices which are granted under the Licensing Act 2003. A TUN allows for the temporary use of premises for gambling where there is no premises licence issued under the Gambling Act 2005. Premises that might be suitable for a TUN could include hotels, conference centres and sporting venues.

The Licensing Authority can only grant a TUN to a person or company holding a relevant operating licence, for example a non-remote casino operating licence.

The regulations state that a TUN can only be used to permit the provision of facilities for equal chance gaming where the gaming produces a single winner.

In practice this often relates to poker tournaments and allows a casino operator to apply for a number of TUN's in various regional locations such as hotel event spaces, so they can hold preliminary rounds of a poker competition before holding the final in their main licensed venue.

If objections are received to a TUN, the objections will be considered at a hearing, unless all parties agree that a hearing is unnecessary. The principles applied by the Licensing Authority will be those under section 153 of the Act.