Gambling - Revised Licence conditions and codes of Practice - Published

The Gambling Commission have recently published a revised Licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP)  which shall take effect on 31^st October 2016.

The revision follow earlier consultations carried out by the Commission.

In 2015 the Gambling Commission carried out a consultation upon proposed amendments to the LCCP  for all operators (both remote and non-remote) in relation to the prevention of crime associated with gambling and two short supplementary consultations in June 2016 on the responsible placement of digital adverts and extending the requirement to assess money laundering risk to the non-remote lottery sector.  This was followed by two further short supplementary consultations in June 2016 on the responsible placement of digital adverts and extending the requirement to assess money laundering risk to the non-remote lottery sector.

Regrettably, unlike on earlier occasions the Commission is yet to publish a summary of the changes and simply incorporated them into the new version. 

As the changes may have potential impact for all Operators the document should warrant close attention.

The changes include a new section in Part 1 entitled ‘Anti-money laundering’, the payment advice (Pg 13) has also been updated to reflect the anti-money laundering ethos.