Pending: a permission that has not started yet
94 records, about 2 per cent. The application has been granted or is in process and the licence has not commenced. A pending licence authorises nothing today.
It exists as a visible state because licensing is not instantaneous and the register is a live record rather than a periodic publication. A company preparing to launch appears here before it can lawfully take a bet.
It is not a rejection queue. A pending record is not evidence that anybody has doubts about the application; it is evidence that a date has not arrived.
Which is where it goes wrong. It reads as 'nearly licensed' and gets cited that way by operators who are not yet permitted to do the thing they are describing.
What to do with it. If a site is trading on a pending licence, the mismatch between the date on the register and the date on the advertising is the whole story.
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- The public register, and what it is evidence of
- Checking whether a betting site is licensed, without taking anybody's word
- What a register cannot tell you, and what people read into it anyway
- Active: what it does and does not guarantee
- Surrendered: the operator handed the licence back
- Revoked, and revoked for non-payment: two different endings