Code of Practice
Code of Practice for the Gambling Industry
The gambling industry is widely recognised as one of the world's most dynamic and innovative industries, especially in the field of remote services.
Gibraltar is home to the world's leading on-line gambling operators, and is the longest established host to this scale of services. As such, the Government of Gibraltar and the Gambling Commissioner are committed to ensuring that the standards under which its deliberately small number of high quality licensed gambling operators provide their services remain at the forefront of sound and effective regulatory practices, whilst maintaining a creative and competitive environment.
To this end, the Gambling Commissioner recognises that regulation should strive to achieve desirable and necessary customer protections, and wider social responsibilities, but not to a degree that commercial opportunities are inappropriately stifled. On the contrary, the Commissioner takes the view that an industry that is recognised as providing properly and proportionately licensed and regulated facilities will enjoy greater success in satisfying governments and players alike that their facilities are fair, secure and transparent, and the best place for remote gambling to take place.
The Government and the Gambling Commissioner are aware that the Gibraltar based industry is keen to develop its existing supervisory arrangements into an even more visible, risk based and effective regulatory relationship.
The purpose of this document is to make holders and prospective holders of remote and non-remote gambling licences who operate under the supervision of the Gambling Commissioner aware of the more significant and changed provisions of the Gambling Act 2005 ("the Act"), under which they are required to conduct their businesses, and outline, for development, a fair and transparent regulatory framework within which Gibraltar licence holders will be required to operate.
This Code has been approved by the Minister for Gambling pursuant to Section 6(6)(f) of the Gambling Act.
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