Betting & Gaming
Gambling - Government's Response to the consultation on proposals for changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures.
As has been widely reported this morning the Government has published their response to their October 2017 consultation on gaming machines and social responsibility measures. The headline proposal, which will need further legislation for im...
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Gambling - Annual fees: Are you in the right bracket?
In July many Operators will be required to pay their licence annual fees to the Commission. As we previously reported the Commission has introduced a new charging scale for Operators based not upon the number of physical shops within their ...
Gambling – Commission issue GDPR guidance
The Gambling Commission has now published an information note regarding the upcoming introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Processing of personal data will continue to be required in order to achieve compliance with a gam...
Gambling – ‘EuroMillions Condition’
Today the Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 comes into force and will affect all betting operating licences, whether or not they were issued before today’s date. The regulations will add the follo...
Gambling - Online Gambling Review Published.
The Gambling Commission has now published there review of the Online Gambling industry. Following the implementation of the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014; which required online Operators whose services are available in Grea...
Gambling – Changes to Advertising Rules
The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) earlier this month published new tightened standards concerning gambling advertising which will come into force on 2nd April 2018. These standards will be enforced by the Advertising Standards Aut...
Gambling – William Hill to pay £6.2m penalty
It is being reported that following earlier examples such as BetFred and Paddy Power, William Hill Group have been made subject to a penalty package of at least £6.2m (second largest fine issued by the Gambling Commission) following an inves...