Elizabeth Dunn

On 31 October 2015 and 6 April 2016, a number of changes to
the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (‘LCCP’) and the
Remote Technical Standards (‘RTS’) came into force for British licensed
remote gambling operators.What impact have these changes had on British operators?

We could not let the dust settle on 2015 without recapping the monumental
upheaval the sports industry has experienced this year. Not since Rupert
Murdoch unearthed sport as a commercial “battering ram” for distribution
platforms in his address to the News Corp AGM in 1996 and the English
Premier League consummated its first-ever deal with Sky in 1992, have we
arguably witnessed such transformational acceleration as in 2015.

On 4 August, the UK Gambling Commission enacted a raft of wideranging changes to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (‘LCCP’), with which all operators licensed by the UK Gambling Commission must comply. In this article, Andrew Danson and Elizabeth Dunn of K&L Gates discuss some of the key changes, what they might mean for operators, and the basis on which they are being introduced.

With the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 (the ‘Act’) currently expected to come into force on 1 September 2014, the UK Gambling Commission (‘GC’) has recently published guidance to operators (via FAQs) on its plans for implementation of the Act. The GC has clarified that, as part of the licensing application process, applicants will be asked to disclose any markets from which they derive more than 3% of their total revenue from players (or 10% for operators with a
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With the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 (the ‘Act’) currently expected to come into force on 1 September 2014, the UK Gambling Commission (‘GC’) has recently published guidance to operators (via FAQs) on its plans for implementation of the Act. The GC has clarified that, as part of the licensing application process, applicants will be asked to disclose any markets from which they derive more than 3% of their total revenue from players (or 10% for operators with a
total revenue of less than £5m). Show less

The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill, which will implement the UK government’s plan to change the regulation of online gambling from a point of supply to a point of consumption basis, has been approved by the House of Commons. However, the parliamentary Christmas break means the Bill is unlikely to receive Royal Assent in time for licences to be issued by 1 April 2014, as the Government had planned.