| The Gaming Board for Great Britain is the regulatory body for casinos, bingo clubs, gaming machines and the larger society and all local authority lotteries in Great Britain. The purposes for which the Board was given its statutory functions under the 1968 Gaming Act and 1976 Lotteries and Amusement Act is to ensure that those involved in gaming and lotteries are fit and proper to do so and to keep gaming free from criminal infiltration; to ensure that gaming and lotteries are run fairly and in accordance with the law and ;to advise the Secretary of State on developments in gaming and lotteries so that the law can respond to change. |