Generally, Category D machines are low-stake fruit machine style machines, coin pushers (sometimes called penny falls) or crane grabs.
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Casinos
Betting shops
Tracks with pool betting
Bingo premises
Adult Gaming Centres (AGCs)
Members' clubs
Miners' welfare clubs or commercial clubs
Family Entertainment Centres (FECs)
Pubs
Travelling fairs
Unlicensed family entertainment centres (UFECs) with a permit.
However, their use in premises other than adult gaming centres, family entertainment centres, pubs and travelling fairs is unusual.
There are five different combinations of stake and prize for the various types of category D machine.
| Combinations | Stake | Maximum Prize |
| D money prize | 10p | £5 |
| D non-money prize (other than crane grab machine) |
30p | £8 |
| D non-money prize (crane grab machine) |
£1 | £50 |
| D combined money and non-money prize (other than coin pusher or penny falls machines) |
10p | £8 (of which no more than £5 may be a money prize) |
| D combined money and non-money prize (coin pusher or penny falls machine) |
20p | £20 (of which no more than £10 may be a money prize) |
Pubs and other alcohol licensed premises are automatically entitled to two category C or D gaming machines upon notification to the local licensing authority of their intention to make gaming machines available for use.
Licensing authorities can issue gaming machine permits which allow additional category C and D gaming machines to be provided.
Where a gaming machine permit authorises the making available of a specified number of gaming machines in particular premises, this will effectively replace, and not be in addition to, any automatic entitlement to two machines.
Members' clubs - for example working men's clubs, branches of the Royal British Legion and clubs with political ties - and Miners' welfare institutes as defined in the Licensing Act 2003 may site up to three machines from categories B3A, B4, C or D (only one can be B3A) with a club machine permit.
Commercial clubs may site up to three machines from categories B4, C or D (not B3A machines).
Travelling fairs may site any number of category D gaming machines.
Some category D gaming machines are designed or adapted to play bingo as a prize game.
If you have prize gaming permit or a family entertainment centre permit you can make these machines available to play.
The machines must comply with the Gaming machine permits code of practice.
If you are a machine manufacturer or supplier you will need a gaming machine technical licence, which type will depend on the nature of your business.
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