Operator · UK Gambling Commission / 457 · trading as mike smale
Michael Montague John Smale is a gambling operator licensed by the UK Gambling Commission — licence 000457-N-102065-018, status active.[1] It has 2 licence records: 1 active and 1 surrendered. Status read from the UK Gambling Commission's page gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-data.zip. No domains on record. Last verified against the official register on (11 h ago).
“No record” means we hold no licence for Michael Montague John Smale on that register — not proof of anything else. For Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Colombia and Ukraine we read only online licence types.
Regulatory actions 0
No fine, suspension or warning linked to Michael Montague John Smale in the last 3 months — which is not a clean record. We collect the actions the UK Gambling Commission, the Malta Gaming Authority and Curaçao's CGA publish, and link one only when the publication names an entity we can match. Sign in for three years of history.
Withdrawn 2026-10-22: Undid a change read on 2026-10-16 from a frozen December 2025 copy of the UKGC register; the register itself did not change. See iGregulator's incident write-up of 2026-10-16 (not public).
Withdrawn 2026-10-22: Read from a frozen December 2025 copy of the UKGC register that the Commission's URL served on 2026-10-16; the register itself did not change. See iGregulator's incident write-up of 2026-10-16 (not public).
Restores the status we held before our 2026-09-22 event (surrendered), read again from the normal register export. That event came from a different export and has been withdrawn. Not a new decision by the Commission.
Withdrawn 2026-09-30: Read from a different export that the Gambling Commission's register URL served on 2026-09-22 (unquoted CSV, no End Date column, 3,458 licences), in which licences the register lists as surrendered, lapsed or revoked read Active. Not the register's status for this licence: the next normal export restored the status we held before, surrendered.
Status corrected: the Gambling Commission publishes this licence as "Surrendered" — the operator gave it up. It was mapped onto `revoked`, which asserts an enforcement decision the Commission did not publish.
Withdrawn 2026-10-01: Recorded as revoked by a status-mapping error: the Gambling Commission publishes this licence as "Surrendered" (the operator gave it up). No revocation was published. The mapping was fixed on 2026-09-17; this event was withdrawn on 2026-10-01.
Withdrawn 2026-09-30: Read from a different export that the Gambling Commission's register URL served on 2026-08-20 (unquoted CSV, no End Date column, 3,458 licences), in which licences the register lists as surrendered, lapsed or revoked read Active. Not the register's status for this licence: the next normal export restored the status we held before, revoked.
Licence 000457-N-102065-018: status active, read from this page on 2026-11-14. Stored copy: SHA-256 50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.
Licence 000457-N-102065-018: listed here; last seen listed on 2026-11-14.
Licence 000457-A-102066-008: status surrendered, read from this page on 2026-11-14. Stored copy: SHA-256 50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.
Licence 000457-A-102066-008: listed here; last seen listed on 2026-11-14.
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