Ancillary remote: the licence for taking a bet by telephone
545 records, 12 per cent of the register, and the least understood value in it. It permits remote gambling only as an adjunct to a physical operation — a bet placed by phone with a shop, or a machine in premises that connects to a remote server.
It exists so that a business whose real operation is physical does not need a full remote licence for the small electronic part of it. The permission is genuinely narrower: it does not authorise a general online sportsbook, and a company holding only this cannot lawfully run one.
It is not a lesser version of a remote licence. It is a different permission with a different scope, and the register keeps it in the same column precisely so the scope is visible.
Here is the catch. It gets read as 'remote' by anybody skim-counting the type column, which is most people who have ever quoted a figure from this register.
What to do with it. If you are checking whether a website is permitted, Ancillary Remote is not the row you are looking for.
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