01636 650 000 customerservices@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk Your Home Your District Your Business Your Council You are here: Your Business Environmental Health Licensing Gambling licences Premises licence Licensing Act 2003 Best Bar None scheme Personal licence Club premises certificate Temporary events notice Gambling licences Raffles, totes and lotteries Taxi licensing Charitable collections Street trading Beauty treatments Nail bars Skin piercing and tattoos Caravan site licence Scrap metal Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) Animal Licensing Pavement licence Gambling licences If you wish to allow gambling activities to take place in your premises, you must apply for a licence. The council is responsible for: licensing premises for gambling activities issuing provisional statements for premises considering notices given for the temporary use of premises for gambling granting permits for gaming and gaming machines in clubs and miners’ welfare institutes regulating gaming and gaming machines in alcohol-licensed premises granting permits to family entertainment centres for the use of certain lower stake gaming machines granting permits for prize gaming considering occasional use notices for betting at tracks registering small society lotteries Gambling policy Under the Gambling Act 2005, the council must have a Statement of Gambling Policy (PDF File, 766kb) relating to the act. This was adopted in January 2019 and is the fourth edition since the Gambling Act came into force. We must review this policy every three years. Our last review was in 2019. For a copy of the changes contact us on request@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk or 01636 650000. Registers for licensed premises are kept in accordance with regulations and a gambling register (PDF File, 54kb) is also available at the council offices for public inspection. Occasional use notice An occasional use notice (OCN) allows betting to take place on a track for eight days or less in a calendar year, where no premises licence has been issued. This process is different to the temporary use notice (TUN). A 'track' does not necessarily have to be a horse racecourse or greyhound track. Other examples of tracks include: point-to-point horserace meeting football, cricket or rugby grounds athletics stadium golf-course venues hosting darts, bowls or snooker tournaments premises staging boxing matches section of river hosting a fishing competition motor racing event Applying for an occasional use notice To apply to us for an OCN, you’ll first need obtain the appropriate operating permission from the Gambling Commission. The applicant must be the person responsible for the administration of events on the track, or by an occupier of the track. You must specify the day on which the betting will be taking place. The notice may be for consecutive days as long as the eight day limit is not exceeded. Your application for an OCN in Newark and Sherwood should be sent to us as the licensing authority and to the chief officer of police. Apply for an occasional use notice (PDF File, 380kb) Provided that the betting does not take place on more than eight days, there is no provision for objections to be submitted and the licensing authority will acknowledge your notice. There is no fee for this type of application. Additional information Contact us Castle House, Great North Road, Newark, Notts, NG24 1BY Open Mon to Fri, 9am - 5pm Contact Us Follow us Facebook Flickr Instagram Twitter YouTube Legal Accessibility Cookies Copyright Disclaimer Information request Privacy Your Council Current vacancies Give us your feedback Latest news MyAccount for tenants Your local councillor Committee calendar