Following on the latest trend of bingo halls trying to get highly lucrative £500 jackpot slot machines into their clubs, the latest club to apply for an “Adult Gaming Centre” license is the Mecca Bingo in Oldbury. This licence has been seen as something of a “loophole” for bingo clubs to house high value slots machines to boost their revenues.
What this entails is the bingo club applying for a separate licence to operate these “Adult Gaming Centres” within their existing premises. The new gambling laws have made it possible for bingo halls and similar operations to apply for an unlimited amount of these licences and it has obviously taken the legal pundits some time to work this out.
Bingo clubs have been crying foul to the Government since they took these highly lucrative slot machines away from them under the terms of the new gambling act, but by applying for one or more of these licences under the same premises, the bingo club will be allowed to have four of these machines for every licence.
I don’t know about you, I think that this is a whole lot of hoop jumping when the Government could quite simply change the laws to regulate matters on a more even keel. Quite personally, if it were me and the Government was putting me through my paces in this, I would simply turn to online bingo. There is far less red tape to have to deal with.
