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# The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 503
BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES
The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made
22nd April 2025
Laid before Parliament
24th April 2025
Coming into force
22nd July 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 172(6) of the Gambling Act 2005.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 22nd July 2025.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

## 2 Amendment of the Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) Regulations 2009 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Tables in Casinos) (Definitions) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows.
(2) Omit paragraph (2) of regulation 1 (interpretation).
(3) For regulation 2 (gaming table: definition) (but not the heading), substitute—
2 For the purposes of section 172(3) to (5) of the Act, a gaming table is an apparatus that is designed or adapted to enable individuals to play a real game of chance where the design or adaptation is such that the apparatus is required to be controlled or operated by an individual employed or concerned in arranging for others to play the game.
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