Appendix 2: Casino Advisory Panel: terms
of Reference
1. The Secretary of State will ask the Casino
Advisory Panel to assist her in the exercise of her order making
powers under Section 175(4) of the Gambling Act 2005 to determine
the geographical distribution of casino premises licences. For
this purpose, she is required to specify in the order which local
authorities should be permitted to issue casino premises licences
of a specified kind, and how many of each type of casino premises
licence each specified local authority should be permitted to
issue. The criteria against which the Panel will assess these
submissions were set out in the Government's national policy statement
on casinos published on 16 December 2004. The primary consideration
will be to ensure that locations provide the best possible test
of social impact. Subject to this, the criteria will also be:
· to include
areas in need of regeneration (as measured by employment and other
social deprivation data) and which are likely to benefit in these
terms from a new casino;
· to ensure
that those areas selected are willing to license a new casino.
2. The Secretary of State has asked the Panel
to make its recommendations to her by the end of 2006.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
August 2005
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