This revised version of the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) has come into effect on 1 January 2009 and all licensed operators and personal licence holders will be issued with new licences by that date. This version of the LCCP will replace the one published in June 2007.

The LCCP has been revised in order to take account of a number of issues raised within the Commission and by the industry since June 2007. The Commission’s proposed changes were the subject of a twelve-week consultation period ending on 3 July. The Commission received 32 written responses to the consultation proposals.

The principal changes to the LCCP are:

• modifying licence condition 8 (Display of licensed status) in respect of remote operators and adding a provision in respect of gaming machine technical and gambling software licences;
• reducing the number of key events under licence condition 15.2 and adding an ordinary code provision in respect of events that have a material impact on licensees;
• removing the note attached to personal licences (referring to information requirements applying to operators) and adding a list of key events relevant to personal licence holders;
• adding new social responsibility and ordinary code provisions in respect of the identification of individual customers by remote licensees.

Some details have been revised in other conditions and codes as well as a number of changes made to improve clarity, consistency of language and layout. This includes amalgamating provisions within certain sections where it was possible to remove duplication without changing meaning or losing clarity.

As the Gambling Act 2005 requires that we give notice of changes to licence conditions, we have written to all holders of operating licences with a copy of the new LCCP document, to arrive by 1 October. We have also written to all personal licence holders to tell them about changes in their licence conditions