The Gambling Commission has today published its business plan outlining its focus and priorities for 2018-2019. This represents the first of three plans to be published over the lifespan of the Commission’s three year strategy 2018-2021 entitled “Making gambling fairer and safer”, upon which we reported in November last year. The plan (that can be downloaded below) sets out how […]
The first implementation phase of the UK’s national online self-exclusion scheme GamStop has commenced. This follows an announcement by the Remote Gambling Association (“RGA”) last December that the Registration Form and the GamStop Operator Side Implementation Guidance (GOSIG) were available via the GamStop Operator Portal to enable the onboarding process for all British licensed online gambling operators to integrate with […]
Picking up on publication by the Home Office of the revised statutory guidance under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003 (on which we reported yesterday), a brief online article on the same subject by David Clifton entitled “How will the Licensing Act’s revised guidance affect you?” has been published on the Pub & Bar […]
UKHospitality (the trade body created in February 2018 from the merger of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and the British Hospitality Association (BHA), representing the diverse hospitality sector) has published its manifesto for the 3 May 2018 local elections (that can be downloaded below). The manifesto is designed to provide local authorities with “a series […]
Yesterday the Home Office published revised Guidance under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003, that has taken immediate effect. It can be downloaded below. Section 182 requires the Secretary of State to issue and, from time to time, revise guidance to licensing authorities on the discharge of their functions under the 2003 Act. It also provides important […]
The Gambling Commission has updated its guidance to both online and non-remote operators about what they should consider when remedying a return-to-player fault. Copies of each item of guidance can be downloaded below.
Mixed messages have emanated from GambleAware in the last few days, albeit with a common theme. Its open letter to the gambling industry, praising the record-breaking £9.4 million response to last year’s concerns regarding voluntary funding for problem gambling initiatives was followed just a few days later by a less than complimentary speech given by its Chief […]
In order to maintain transparency to on-course horse-race pool betting customers, the Gambling Commission has commenced a little-publicised consultation (that runs until 11 May 2018) on a proposal to extend an existing LCCP requirement, that currently applies only to pool betting on dog races, so that it also applies to horse-race pool betting when the exclusive horse-race pool betting licence ends […]
Following a decision by the Independent Regulatory Commission of the Football Association, former Lincoln City FC defender Bradley Wood has received a six-year suspension from football and all football activity from 9 March 2018 to 8 March 2024, after a finding that he committed 25 breaches of The FA’s Integrity and Betting Rules. The written reasons and decision […]
Executive Director of the Commission, Tim Miller, delivered a speech at yesterday’s Lotteries Council annual conference in which he suggested that the lotteries sector “could lead the way in restoring some public trust in [the gambling] industry”. In his speech (that can be downloaded below) Tim Miller referred to advice given by the Commission at the end […]
