Gambling Commission is an executive non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for regulating gambling and supervising gaming law in Great Britain.
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16 Facts About Gambling Commission
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The Gambling Commission replaced the Gaming Board for Great Britain in 2007.
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Gambling Commission was established under the Gambling Act 2005 and assumed full powers in 2007, taking over responsibility from the Gaming Board for Great Britain, in regulating arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, slot machines and lotteries, but not spread betting .
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The Gambling Commission is a non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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In October 2020, the Commission published results of an investigation of BGO, GAN, and NetBet, three UK online gambling operators.
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The Gambling Commission concluded that in the period between September 2018 and March 2020 the operators did not make enough efforts to keep gamblers' safe and prevent money laundering.
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From December, 2020 through February, 2021, the Commission invited public comment on improving the quality and timeliness of its statistics regarding problem gambling.
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List of responsibilities of the Gambling Commission includes work to ensure that licensees act in accordance with the requirements imposed by the Gambling Act 2005 and other related regulations and standards.
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The Gambling Commission has the right to visit its licensees and examine their financial activities.
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Apart from reviewing the activities of the licensed operators, the Gambling Commission is authorised to take regulatory actions against those licensees who breach the rules in some way.
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Intelligence department of the Gambling Commission collects information about the illegal activities related to their field and conducts preliminary investigation to build a picture of the situation and inform senior management.
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In December 2016 the Gambling Commission fined Camelot Group £3 million for failing to verify a fraudulent National Lottery ticket that had been presented in 2009.
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The Gambling Commission found that Camelot had poor fraud prevention controls in place and that it had breached the terms of its licence.
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Gambling Commission has come under fire for not preventing the spread of Fixed odds betting terminals on the high street.
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The demise of this site raised questions of the ability of the Gambling Commission to protect UK customers from rogue traders, although overall responsibility for UK online regulation was only given to the UKGC in November 2014.
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In January 2020 UK Gambling Commission approves three charities for compulsory funding from gambling operators.
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