{
"lastReviewed": "2026-09-18",
"sources": [
{
"id": "scam-detection-action-fraud",
"authority": "Action Fraud",
"title": "Action Fraud – the UK's national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre",
"url": "https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden to automated access, independently reproduced — the whole site refuses automated fetches and no body was ever returned. Nothing about its reporting URL, telephone number, opening hours or geographic scope is verified, including whether Scotland is covered. A human must open it in a browser."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-prohibiting-access-designated-groups",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "3. Prohibiting Access to Designated Groups (Registrar's Standards)",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/responsibilities-and-resources/3-prohibiting-access-designated-groups",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Land-based and charitable-gaming construction: under 19 for a casino, under 18 for a cGaming site. The page does not define minor and sets out no identity-verification procedure. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-eligibility",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Eligibility (Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming)",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/responsibilities-and-resources/eligibility",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page a reader needs for the exact age construction: under 19 is excluded from a player account except at 18 or over solely to buy a lottery ticket. Also carries the Ontario-only geolocation rule and the full list of ineligible groups."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-how-to-look-up-licence-status",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "How to Look Up a Licence Status",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/how-look-licence-status",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-04-25",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Visibly stale and narrower than its title suggests. It is the iAGCO Guide for Horse Racing and says nothing about internet gaming operator registrations, so it does not establish that an igaming registration can be looked up at all. Do not extrapolate it to online gambling."
},
{
"id": "ontario-iagco-new-complaint-form",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "iAGCO – new complaint (internet gaming)",
"url": "https://www.iagco.agco.ca/prod/pub/en/NewComplaint.aspx?Code=CIG",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "This is genuinely the URL AGCO's complaints page links to, but it returned a JavaScript application shell, so the form was never observed. Send readers to AGCO's internet gaming complaints page and let them click through."
},
{
"id": "ontario-iagco-licence-search",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "iAGCO licence search",
"url": "https://www.iagco.agco.ca/prod/pub/en/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=LicenseSearch",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "AGCO's own public portal, on the official iagco.agco.ca domain, but it returned only a JavaScript application shell to an automated fetch: no form fields and no results were observed. Whether internet gaming operator registrations are searchable here at all is unestablished."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-igaming-standards-faqs",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "iGaming standards FAQs",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/igaming-standards-faqs",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines the Control Activity Matrix and the outcomes-based character of the Standards. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-cse-information-bulletin",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Information Bulletin: AGCO Sets iGaming Standards for Centralized Self-Exclusion Program",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/news/information-bulletin-agco-sets-igaming-standards-centralized-self-exclusion-program",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-04-02",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Sets only three terms for the centralized program: six months, one year and five years. iGaming Ontario's BetGuard launch announcement additionally mentions a custom term. The conflict is unresolved, so a custom term must not be described as a standards-mandated option. The bulletin also gives no effective date for the standards."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-internet-gaming-complaints",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Internet gaming complaints",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/internet-gaming-complaints",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The entry point to use rather than a deep link into the portal. AGCO states plainly that it cannot get a player's money back. Accepted categories are responsible gaming, suspected illegal activity and advertising; no account is needed to submit. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-igaming-operator-application-guide",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Internet Gaming Operator Application Guide",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/guides/internet-gaming-operator-application-guide",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Source for the one- or two-year registration term and the annual regulatory fee per gaming site. It does not set out the renewal procedure, and fee figures are date-sensitive. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-list-registered-igaming-operators",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "List of Registered Internet Gaming Operators",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/list-registered-internet-gaming-operators",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Despite its title this page holds no operator data, no search box and no last-updated date. Its only outbound link goes to iGaming Ontario's Regulated iGaming Market page, not to the filterable Operators directory, which sits a further click away."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-lottery-and-gaming",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Lottery and gaming",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "AGCO's landing page for casinos, internet gaming sites and lotteries. It shows no last-updated date, so its currency cannot be asserted."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-marketing-and-advertising",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Marketing and Advertising",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/responsible-gambling/marketing-and-advertising",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Ontario prohibits the public advertising of inducements, not inducements themselves; they remain permitted on an operator's own site and in direct marketing to players who have actively opted in. Frequently misreported as a bonus ban."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-overview-internet-gaming",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Overview of Internet Gaming in Ontario",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/overview-internet-gaming-ontario",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Source for the 4 April 2022 market launch and the Criminal Code basis for conduct and manage. The page names no Criminal Code section, so none can be cited. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-player-support-information",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Player Support & Information — Online Gambling (igaming) and Sport and Event Betting",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/player-support-information-online-gambling-igaming-and-sport-and-event-betting",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Tells consumers to look for the iGaming Ontario logo. No official page claims the logo is tamper-proof or verifiable, so the operator directory is the stronger check."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-registrars-standards-internet-gaming",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming (landing page)",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/guides/registrars-standards-internet-gaming",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The landing page exposes no version or edition number for the Standards, only that they came into force on 4 April 2022. The full standards text itself was not read in this pass."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-roles-agco-and-igo",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Roles of the AGCO and iGaming Ontario",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/roles-agco-and-igaming-ontario",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Carries three unresolved conflicts with other official pages. It names the Attorney General as the reporting minister while iGaming Ontario's own annual report names the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming; it says iGO became independent in May 2025 while also describing the iGO board as overseen by the AGCO board; and it lists dispute resolution among iGO's responsibilities while iGO's own Player Support page says it does not decide disputes. Do not state a reporting ministry, or iGO's dispute role, as fact. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-safer-gambling",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Safer gambling",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/safer-gambling",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Source for the mandatory limit tools and the 24-hour cooling-off before a limit can be lowered or removed, and for the ConnexOntario and 9-8-8 contact details. Its summary of OLG's My PlayBreak gives three discrete terms (six months, one year, five years) and does not mention charitable gaming; prefer OLG's own page for My PlayBreak scope and terms. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-self-exclusion-and-breaks-in-play",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Self-Exclusion and Breaks in Play",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/responsibilities-and-resources/self-exclusion-and-breaks-play",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Distinguishes a break in play (one day to three months, per operator) from self-exclusion (six months, one year, five years) and from the province-wide Centralized Self-Exclusion Program. Do not conflate the three."
},
{
"id": "ontario-agco-standards-index",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario",
"title": "Standards",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/general/standards",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page's own title is the single word Standards; the dossier describes it as AGCO's central standards index. It shows no version number for the Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-agco-appendix-c-itl",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Appendix C: Independent Testing Laboratory Certification Policy",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/responsibilities-and-resources/guides/appendix-c-itl-certification-policy",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Requires a certification report to list the standards the technology was certified against, and to state whether testing relied on previous testing done for another jurisdiction."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-agco-eligibility",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Eligibility – Prohibiting Access to Designated Groups and Player Account Management",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/prohibiting-access-designated-groups-and-player-account-management/eligibility",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"note": "Confirmed to contain no rule on when age must be verified relative to account activation, and nothing on what happens to an ineligible player's deposits."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-agco-itl-news-2021",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Independent Testing Labs Registered for igaming in Ontario",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/news/independent-testing-labs-registered-igaming-ontario",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-07-29",
"note": "A 2021 news item; five years old at the check date."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-agco-limit-setting-features",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Limit Setting Features — AGCO responsibilities and resources",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/responsibilities-and-resources/limit-setting-features",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No page-level last-updated date; the page marks the standard itself as amended February 2022, which is the only date it displays. Ontario limits bind the operator they are set with — they are not a cross-operator cap."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-agco-registered-itls",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Registered Independent Testing Labs",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/registered-independent-testing-labs",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A static list with no search interface and no last-updated date, so its currency cannot be established from the page."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-agco-igaming-standards-export",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming — full-text export",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/book/export/html/245361",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A generated full-text export URL rather than a named page — re-check it before each publication. Numbering conflict: this export presents the responsible-gambling standards under one numbering while another AGCO page presents the same subject matter under a different one, and the export states it contains no standards in the other series. Cite AGCO requirements by their wording, not by number, until this is resolved."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-agco-responsible-gaming-igaming",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Responsible Gaming standards for internet gaming — AGCO",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/responsibilities-and-resources/11-responsible-gaming-igaming",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Carries the cooling-off, breaks-in-play and marketing standards, one of them marked as updated December 2021. It is the other half of the AGCO numbering conflict described on the full-text export entry: both pages are AGCO's, and which numbering governs internet gaming was not resolved."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-agco-self-exclusion-breaks-in-play",
"authority": "Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)",
"title": "Self-Exclusion and Breaks in Play — AGCO",
"url": "https://www.agco.ca/en/lottery-and-gaming/responsible-gambling/self-exclusion-and-breaks-play",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"note": "Sets out the operator duties for Centrally Self-Excluded Persons (no new or existing account access, wagers cancelled and refunded within 24 hours with narrow exceptions, marketing stopped within 24 hours) and names iGaming Ontario as registry administrator. Term lengths are given as six months, one year and five years, but iGaming Ontario's own launch announcement for the live product adds 'a custom term' — treat the three-option list as incomplete and attribute each version."
},
{
"id": "sweden-arn-general-area",
"authority": "Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN)",
"title": "Allmänna — ARN's general dispute area, which covers gambling",
"url": "https://arn.se/tvisteomraden/ovrigt/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The only official page that names gambling (spel) as something ARN handles, and it sets the claim value at a minimum of 750 kr. The gambling regulator's own paraphrase says the claim must exceed 750 kronor; ARN's wording is at least 750 kr. Prefer ARN's own figure."
},
{
"id": "sweden-arn-consumer",
"authority": "Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN)",
"title": "Konsument — how to bring a consumer dispute to the Swedish National Board for Consumer Disputes",
"url": "https://arn.se/konsument/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "This overview page does not name gambling among the sectors it lists, which reads as a contradiction of the regulator's advice to bring money claims here. It is not one: gambling sits in ARN's general dispute area, on the dispute-areas pages also listed here. A complaint must reach ARN within one year of the consumer first complaining to the company, and a fee of 150 SEK applies."
},
{
"id": "sweden-arn-dispute-areas",
"authority": "Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN)",
"title": "Tvisteområden — the twelve dispute areas ARN handles",
"url": "https://arn.se/tvisteomraden/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Cases are divided across twelve dispute areas; the general area is the one that covers gambling."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-acma-online-gambling-services",
"authority": "Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)",
"title": "Online gambling services — ACMA",
"url": "https://www.acma.gov.au/online-gambling-services",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "Timed out after 60 seconds; no content retrieved and the title is the researcher's label. ACMA is the enforcement authority for the Interactive Gambling Act and for BetStop obligations, so its absence from the verified material is a real gap in the Australian picture."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-bcuhb-wales-gambling-service",
"authority": "Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (NHS Wales)",
"title": "A new gambling treatment service and 24/7 helpline is going live for people across Wales",
"url": "https://bcuhb.nhs.wales/news/2026/a-new-gambling-treatment-service-and-247-helpline-is-going-live-for-people-across-wales/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-31",
"note": "Published 31 March 2026: the source for the Wales helpline number and its 24/7 availability. It also gives referral routes, which are not crisis numbers and should not be presented as such."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-betstop",
"authority": "BetStop (Australian Government)",
"title": "BetStop — the National Self-Exclusion Register",
"url": "https://www.betstop.gov.au/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Thin homepage. Coverage is all licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers, who may not accept a bet, open an account or send marketing. Durations are not stated on the page — the minimum, the maximum and whether a lifetime option exists are all unverified, so do not state them."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-cnwl-national-gambling-clinic",
"authority": "Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust",
"title": "National Gambling Clinic — Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust",
"url": "https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/services/addictions/national-gambling-clinic",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, re-confirmed. Because the clinic's own page could not be read, its official name is unsettled across the sources that can be read: the Gambling Commission calls it the National Problem Gambling Clinic and GambleAware's finder calls it the NHS National Gambling Clinic. Age range, geographic eligibility and referral route are unverified."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-connexontario",
"authority": "ConnexOntario",
"title": "Problem Gambling Support Services in Ontario — ConnexOntario",
"url": "https://connexontario.ca/our-services/gambling-treatment/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Free, confidential, 24/7, funded by the Government of Ontario and Ontario Health — and explicitly an information and referral line, not a counselling provider. Use the confirmed wording of what a caller gets (supportive listening, information and referrals before being connected to a community programme); a more specific phrase used in earlier notes could not be reproduced on re-fetch."
},
{
"id": "curacao-about-us",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "About Us — Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/about-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page contradicts itself on when the National Ordinance on Games of Chance took effect: three statements, one giving 24 December 2025 and two giving 2024. The ordinance itself settles it without relying on the site at all — it was issued on 23 December 2024 and enters into force the day after publication. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "curacao-legacy-domain-about-us",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "About Us on the legacy gamingcontrolcuracao.org domain",
"url": "https://www.gamingcontrolcuracao.org/about-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "redirected",
"note": "Returns HTTP 301 to the matching path on www.cga.cw; the same was confirmed for the root, /responsible-gaming and /contact. But the claim must be scoped to the www host: portal.gamingcontrolcuracao.org returns HTTP 200 and still serves the live licence-management portal on the legacy domain, so 'the old domain now redirects to cga.cw' is only true of www."
},
{
"id": "curacao-supplier-licensing-announcement",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Announcement regarding supplier licensing and registration requirements under the LOK (24 June 2026)",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/gtHN4Cu54508jouLA8LP8XL4nW5UGFtbcyVDtfDi.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-06-24",
"note": "States that 'A Curaçao supplier license is not required for suppliers established outside Curaçao', while foreign suppliers to CGA licensees must register with the CGA by 24 December 2026. The CGA expects the supplier registration process to open in October 2026, which is why no supplier register file appears on the licence-register page even though the duty to keep one is already in force. Text extracted locally."
},
{
"id": "curacao-provisional-licences-announcement",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Announcement regarding the extension of provisional licences issued on 24th December 2024 (23 June 2025)",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/Y8vGrkDRvtFnkdnVI8eSCNy4K61IfujMUII6JMEl.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-06-23",
"note": "Over a year old at the check date, and it does not describe what happened after 24 December 2025 — no follow-up announcement was located. Text extracted locally."
},
{
"id": "curacao-certification-policy",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "CGA Certification Policy — seals and certificates",
"url": "https://cert.cga.cw/page/certification_policy",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines two distinct, non-interchangeable seals — a per-domain Certificate of Operation seal for B2C operators and a Licence Certificate seal for the corporate website — and sets the consumer test, which is domain-matching, not name-matching: the certificate must name the exact domain being visited, and a certificate naming a different domain means the site is displaying someone else's. The footer shows 'Copyright © 2026' but the policy carries no version number and no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "curacao-portal-home",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "CGA License Management Portal",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "For operators and suppliers, with no public search. It states that the process for new online gaming applications is currently closed, with no date attached, and that the old orange seal is no longer valid where it was issued to sub-licensed operators that were not yet issued with a final licence. The portal wording was captured through an automated page summary, so treat individual phrasings as close paraphrase."
},
{
"id": "curacao-cert-service-root",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "CGA online certificate service (cert.cga.cw)",
"url": "https://cert.cga.cw/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An informational page with Home and Certification Policy links only. It has no lookup field of any kind: a consumer cannot type a domain here and be told who holds it. Two probes were run against this service during research and both returned the generic homepage: a ?domain= query string is ignored, and the certificate endpoint called with a placeholder token does not resolve to a lookup. Curaçao therefore publishes no consumer-facing page where a domain can be checked — the only available check is clicking the seal on the gambling site itself and reading the address bar of the page it opens."
},
{
"id": "curacao-contact",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Contact — Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/contact",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The contact form is marked 'Not intended for complaints', and the page states the CGA 'does not handle individual disputes between players and gaming operators'. Postal address and telephone are confirmed. The three email addresses are not: the served HTML contains only Cloudflare email-protection links, so the local parts are inferred from the adjacent labels rather than observed, and a human should open the page in a browser before any address is published."
},
{
"id": "curacao-cga-home",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Curaçao Gaming Authority — official website",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dual naming is live on the same site: the header and navigation still say 'Gaming Control Board' while the body text says 'Curaçao Gaming Authority'."
},
{
"id": "curacao-online-gaming-license-registry",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Curaçao Gaming Authority — Online Gaming License Registry (PDF)",
"url": "https://gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com/media/license_registry/20260916_20260916_ogl_license_registry.pdf",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-16",
"note": "28 pages, 663 numbered rows. Its columns are licence number, licensee, company type, company registration number, issued, expires and status licence — there is no domain or website column, confirmed by full-text search in two independent passes. The status column is free text rather than a controlled vocabulary, and the extracted column alignment is unreliable, so no individual operator's status should be read from it. The filename encodes the publication date, so this URL changes at each update: link the register landing page for a durable link."
},
{
"id": "curacao-domain-management-v1-3",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Domain Management for Licensed Operators, version 1.3 (24 March 2026)",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/documents/Domain_Management_for_Licensed_Operators_V1_3.pdf",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-24",
"note": "The document that explains how Curaçao ties a licence to a domain: DNS TXT verification, the opaque per-domain token behind the certificate URL, the four licence statuses with their colours, and the two seal integration options. Two sentences matter most to a consumer: 'A verified domain does not imply that the site has been approved', and, of the direct-image integration, 'The website owner/operator controls the click behaviour' — so a seal that looks right can link anywhere, and the address bar is what settles it. The fetch tool reported the content as images; the text was extracted locally and the embedded screenshots of the certificate layout could not be read."
},
{
"id": "curacao-enforcement-register",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Enforcement Register — Curaçao Gaming Authority (PDF)",
"url": "https://gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com/media/license_registry/20260915_20260914_enforcement_register.pdf",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-14",
"note": "32 rows over 2 pages. The CGA states it 'currently focuses solely on actions that affect the status of a license', does not include all enforcement measures, and 'may not always be fully accurate or up to date'. Two status values are in use in the rows — 'Revoked' and 'Not extended by the CGA'; no row observed carries 'Suspended', although the header names suspension. Dated filename, so the URL changes at each update."
},
{
"id": "curacao-portal-faq",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "FAQs — CGA License Management Portal",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/faq",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A provisional licence is 'valid for up to six months, with a possible extension for up to an additional six months'; a definitive licence is 'issued for an indefinite period, subject to revocation or suspension'. Applicants must be Curaçao entities with a statutory seat in Curaçao and at least one resident managing director."
},
{
"id": "curacao-portal-online-gaming-info",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Getting a Gaming License — CGA License Management Portal",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/page/online-gaming-info",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "curacao-landbased-casino-registry",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Land-based casino registry — Curaçao Gaming Authority (PDF)",
"url": "https://gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com/media/license_registry/20260728_28072026_land_based_casino_registry.pdf",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-07-28",
"note": "Fetched in the independent verification pass, closing a gap the first pass left open. Columns are licensee number, licensee, casino operator, hotel name, casino name, issued, expires and status, and status values include 'Assessment in progress'. Licence numbers use a different scheme from the online register. It contains no domain column either — the no-domain finding holds across all four published register files. Dated filename."
},
{
"id": "curacao-lok-dutch-original",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Landsverordening op de kansspelen (National Ordinance on Games of Chance) — Dutch original",
"url": "https://gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com/media/online_gaming/20241230_landsverordening_op_de_kansspelen.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Non-English original, published by the CGA and linked from its legislation page, where the regulator states its downloadable legislation is not in the official format. The ordinance is dated 20 December 2024, published in Publicatieblad A° 2024 N° 157, and its closing page reads 'Uitgegeven de 23ste december 2024'. The fetch tool could not read the text layer; it was extracted locally, and headings were separated from body text, so some article numbers could not be tied to the sentence quoted."
},
{
"id": "curacao-portal-license-conditions",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Licence conditions index — CGA License Management Portal",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/page/license-conditions",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Uses the regulator's own vocabulary of 'indefinite-term online gaming license' and 'indefinite-term supplier license', matching the portal FAQ."
},
{
"id": "curacao-license-register-page",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "License register — Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/en/133i348441001",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The whole register is four downloadable PDFs: there is no search box, no filter, no dropdown and no query string. The page carries the regulator's own disclaimer that the overviews 'do not guarantee the current validity of the licenses' and that 'no rights can be derived from these overviews'. The URL slug is an opaque CMS identifier and is the only route the site's own navigation offers."
},
{
"id": "curacao-certificate-holders-list",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "List of Certificate Holders according to article 5.17 of the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK) (PDF)",
"url": "https://gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com/media/license_registry/20260831_20260831_list_of_certificates_holder_acc_art_517_lok.pdf",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-31",
"note": "12 rows, with the purposes in use being 'Test Labs' and 'Alternative Dispute Resolution' — this is the list a player uses to check that an ADR body an operator points them to is actually CGA-certified. Column alignment is badly skewed in extraction, so purposes and dates cannot be reliably matched to individual holders, and the file contains at least one typographical error. Dated filename, so the URL changes at each update."
},
{
"id": "curacao-lok-english-translation",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK) — official English translation",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/sV4kfJ6psZ9WM80fMSimTq95RBLTuG5TJ1nuBhyp.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A sworn translation, 47 pages, certified by a sworn translator of the Court of First Instance of Aruba. Fetched in the independent verification pass, which used it to correct two article numbers and to confirm that the ordinance does not state a minimum age as a number: it forbids licensees to let a minor take part, and separately defines a person under eighteen as a vulnerable person."
},
{
"id": "curacao-online-gaming-regulation",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Online Gaming — Regulation",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/regulation/online-gaming",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "States that the ordinance came into effect on 24 December 2024, that the earlier offshore ordinance 'remains relevant based on the transitional provisions', and that 'Resolving disputes between players and gaming operators is not within our mandate.' The standardised complaint form it describes as planned carries no date, so that status may be stale."
},
{
"id": "curacao-online-gaming-legislation",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Online Gaming Legislation — Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/online-gaming-legislation",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Citation hygiene matters here: the regulator itself states that the legislation available for download 'is not in the official format' and is an unofficial consolidated text."
},
{
"id": "curacao-player-complaints-policy",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Player Complaints Policy Guidelines, version 1.1 (18 June 2025)",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/A95NYeh4Ux7oTAPaOFditIfEGUQkAq89sl8pc5mc.pdf",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-06-18",
"note": "The clearest official statement that the CGA is not a player redress body: 'The CGA will not resolve or make decisions on any player complaints' and 'the CGA does not mediate in individual disputes'. It sets the operator-first, then CGA-certified-ADR route, with the operator bearing all ADR costs, and states that once an ADR process is completed it cannot be restarted with a different ADR entity. Text was extracted locally because the fetch tool could not read the PDF text layer."
},
{
"id": "curacao-warning-unauthorised-domains",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Public announcement and warning regarding unauthorised domains (29 January 2026)",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/9Jz8Cmn2LvMBEBXuGM1xlQTuf5y2OLyxgUcn5k4B.pdf",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-01-29",
"note": "Describes a genuine seal as 'a green box displaying the letters CGA in white' which, when clicked, 'links directly to the official licence certificate hosted on https://cert.cga.cw/'. The warning names specific unlicensed domains; those are deliberately not reproduced here. The CGA publishes a stream of such warnings through its portal."
},
{
"id": "curacao-portal-publications-index",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Publications index — CGA License Management Portal",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/articles",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Where the CGA's announcement PDFs are indexed. One labelling inconsistency is confirmed: the index calls a document 'Extension of Provisional Licenses Issued Prior to 24th December 2024' while the document itself is titled 'Issued on 24th December 2024'."
},
{
"id": "curacao-responsible-gaming",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Responsible Gaming — Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.cga.cw/responsible-gaming",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Visibly stale relative to the current regime: it is oriented to land-based casinos, the self-exclusion programme with Fundashon pa Maneho di Adikshon runs under a protocol in place since 30 July 2012, and the linked guidelines are the 2012 final version. It describes no online self-exclusion arrangement under the new ordinance, states no age limit and gives no complaints route."
},
{
"id": "curacao-orange-seal-termination",
"authority": "Curaçao Gaming Authority",
"title": "Termination of the Certificate of Operation (the Orange Seal) on 15th October 2025",
"url": "https://portal.cga.cw/uploads/publications/NOCNJ5XSLZW5KgABubppi8TCImmzPs7sARsLN6XT.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/curacao-gaming-authority/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-09-25",
"note": "Fetched in the independent verification pass, which found it after the first pass missed it. It dates the end of the orange-seal transition to 15 October 2025, states that displaying an orange seal after that date puts an operator in breach of Curaçao law, and says in the CGA's own voice that 'All former sublicensees have now had their license applications Granted, Approved, or Rejected.' It is one of only two official touchpoints for the sub-licence vocabulary and it does not narrate the historic master-licence model."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-national-lottery-minimum-age",
"authority": "DCMS (UK Government)",
"title": "Government response to the consultation on the minimum age to play National Lottery games",
"url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-minimum-age-for-playing-national-lottery-games/outcome/government-response-to-the-consultation-on-the-minimum-age-to-play-national-lottery-games",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2020-12-08"
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-govuk-statutory-gambling-levy",
"authority": "Department for Culture, Media and Sport (GOV.UK)",
"title": "Statutory gambling levy — GOV.UK publication",
"url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-gambling-levy",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-26",
"note": "Published 18 December 2025, updated 26 March 2026. Sets out how levy funding is split between treatment, prevention and research. It says nothing about GambleAware, so it cannot be cited for that charity's status or closure."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-dss-gambling-reforms",
"authority": "Department of Social Services (Australian Government)",
"title": "Gambling reforms — Department of Social Services",
"url": "https://www.dss.gov.au/gambling/gambling-reforms",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "The connection was reset (ECONNRESET) on every attempt, so nothing was read: the title above is the researcher's label, not a title read from the page. This is the source for Australia's National Consumer Protection Framework measures and their commencement dates, all of which are therefore unverified here. Published as a record of what could not be retrieved, not as a supported citation."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-dss-online-gambling-regulation",
"authority": "Department of Social Services (Australian Government)",
"title": "Information about online gambling regulation — Department of Social Services",
"url": "https://www.dss.gov.au/gambling/information-about-online-gambling-regulation",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "Connection reset (ECONNRESET), the third failed fetch on the same government host — nothing was read and the title is the researcher's label. Recorded so the gap in the Australian material is visible rather than silently filled from secondary sources."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-dss-ncpf-policy-statement",
"authority": "Department of Social Services (Australian Government)",
"title": "National Consumer Protection Framework for Online Wagering — National Policy Statement",
"url": "https://www.dss.gov.au/gambling/resource/national-consumer-protection-framework-online-wagering-national-policy-statement",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "The request timed out after 60 seconds and no content was retrieved, so neither the page's existence nor its contents are confirmed here; the title is the researcher's label. It is the authoritative list of the framework's measures, including anything about deposit limits, activity statements and cooling-off periods — none of which may be stated from this research."
},
{
"id": "aml-eurlex-directive-2015-849",
"authority": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the European Union)",
"title": "Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for money laundering or terrorist financing (Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive)",
"url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2015/849",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned an empty body to the fetcher; two further URL forms of the same directive (HTML and PDF views) failed identically. Nothing from the EU AML Directives is verified — do not cite article numbers, the gambling-services definition, the member-state exemption or any EU threshold."
},
{
"id": "kyc-eurlex-amlr-2024-1624",
"authority": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the European Union)",
"title": "Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for money laundering or terrorist financing",
"url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1624/oj/eng",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Resolves but returns an empty JavaScript shell with no extractable text; a second URL form for the same regulation behaved identically. Nothing from the EU AML Regulation is verified: do not state whether gambling providers are obliged entities, do not state any EU threshold, and do not state an application date."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-eurlex-regulation-2024-3228",
"authority": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the European Union)",
"title": "Regulation (EU) 2024/3228 (repeal of the Online Dispute Resolution Regulation)",
"url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3228/oj/eng",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned empty content to the fetcher; three URL forms were attempted and all behaved the same way. The regulation's operative articles and dates are known by reference only and must not be quoted."
},
{
"id": "kyc-eurlex-aml-summary-2027",
"authority": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the European Union)",
"title": "Summary: Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027)",
"url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/preventing-abuse-of-the-financial-system-for-money-laundering-and-terrorism-purposes-from-2027.html",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned an empty document to the fetcher. No plain-language EU position may be taken from it."
},
{
"id": "aml-eurlex-summary-2027-member-states",
"authority": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the European Union)",
"title": "Summary: Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027) – member states' mechanisms",
"url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/preventing-abuse-of-the-financial-system-for-money-laundering-and-terrorism-purposes-from-2027-member-states-mechanisms.html",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned an empty body to the fetcher."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-ec-dispute-resolution-bodies",
"authority": "European Commission",
"title": "Dispute resolution bodies (Consumer Redress in the EU)",
"url": "https://consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu/dispute-resolution-bodies",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The filters must be set on the page. A keyword deep link was tested and did not apply: the result count stayed at 442 and the first page returned bodies covering passenger rights, energy, credit and travel rather than gambling. Do not publish a pre-filled search URL."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-ec-consumer-redress-relocation",
"authority": "European Commission",
"title": "Site relocation – Consumer Redress in the EU",
"url": "https://consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu/site-relocation_en",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms the discontinuation of the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform and where the material moved to."
},
{
"id": "aml-europarl-question-e-001659-2022",
"authority": "European Parliament",
"title": "Parliamentary question E-001659/2022 – Exemptions for gambling services",
"url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-001659_EN.html",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned an empty body to the fetcher; its content is unverified."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-ftc-fake-prize-scams",
"authority": "Federal Trade Commission",
"title": "Fake Prize, Sweepstakes, and Lottery Scams",
"url": "https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/fake-prize-sweepstakes-and-lottery-scams",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-09",
"note": "United States consumer guidance about prize and sweepstakes advance-fee fraud, including invented-authority names. Applying it to online casino withdrawals is interpretation and must be labelled as such."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-ftc-reportfraud",
"authority": "Federal Trade Commission",
"title": "ReportFraud.ftc.gov (fraud reporting service)",
"url": "https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Loaded but returned a JavaScript-only shell with no readable content, so the intake form and its geographic scope are unverified. The destination is named on the FTC consumer page that was read successfully."
},
{
"id": "aml-fatf-explanatory-materials-r18-r23",
"authority": "Financial Action Task Force (FATF)",
"title": "Explanatory materials on Recommendations 18 and 23 (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/recommendations/Explanatory-Materials-R18-R23.pdf",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden; the PDF was never retrieved."
},
{
"id": "kyc-fatf-rba-casinos",
"authority": "Financial Action Task Force (FATF)",
"title": "Guidance on the Risk-Based Approach for Casinos",
"url": "https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfrecommendations/Fatfguidanceontherisk-basedapproachforcasinos.html",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden to automated access on every attempt by both analysts; no body was retrieved. Nothing from FATF is verified anywhere in this research, so no FATF rule, recommendation number, threshold or adoption date may be stated. The source is listed because a reader may open it in a browser."
},
{
"id": "aml-fatf-gaming-and-gambling-2026",
"authority": "Financial Action Task Force (FATF)",
"title": "Risks of gaming and gambling (2026 news item)",
"url": "https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/news/risks-of-gaming-and-gambling-2026.html",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden; no body retrieved. The 2026 gaming-and-gambling risk indicators are unverified and must not be described."
},
{
"id": "kyc-fatf-recommendations-pdf",
"authority": "Financial Action Task Force (FATF)",
"title": "The FATF Recommendations (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/recommendations/FATF%20Recommendations%202012.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden; the PDF was never retrieved. The text of Recommendation 22 on casinos, and any threshold figure or currency in it, are unverified and must not be written."
},
{
"id": "denmark-consumer-ombudsman",
"authority": "Forbrugerombudsmanden",
"title": "Consumer Ombudsman — English information on complaining about marketing",
"url": "https://forbrugerombudsmanden.dk/consumer-ombudsman",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The destination the Danish Gambling Authority gives for complaints about gambling marketing. It is the Consumer Ombudsman's own English page, part of the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, and it describes how to complain."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-homepage",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "GambleAware homepage — gambling harm support",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Live, with no closure banner, and still the Gambling Commission's link target, despite the charity's own statement that its work has transitioned to new commissioners. Brand continuity is not organisational continuity — but do not tell readers the site is gone."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-statutory-system-statement",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "GambleAware statement on the new statutory gambling harms system and the future of the charity",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/what-we-do/news/news-articles/gambleaware-statement-on-the-new-statutory-gambling-harms-system-and-the-future-of-the-charity/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The charity describing itself, not a regulator describing it. It gives no closure date and no end date for the National Gambling Support Network it says it designed and funded. Trade-press assertions of a specific closure date are not evidence and are not used."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-get-help-now",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "Get help now — GambleAware",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/get-help-now/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page carries a deliberate two-nation split, not a contradiction: an England-and-Scotland section and a Wales section, each with its own number, its own provider and a mirror-image residents-only sentence. It does not say who currently funds or commissions the helpline — do not assert a funder."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-service-finder-results",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "Service finder results — all GambleAware support providers",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/tools-and-support/support-in-your-area/service-finder-results/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Appending a postcode does not filter this page. Fetched bare and with two different postcode query strings on the same day, it returned the identical unfiltered national list of 35 providers each time — independently reproduced in the verification pass. Link it only as a stable 'view all providers' page, never as a pre-filtered local result."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-support-in-your-area",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "Support in your area — GambleAware service finder",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/tools-and-support/support-in-your-area/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The working entry point: type a postcode into the field labelled 'Postcode field' and search. JavaScript is required — the filtering happens in the browser, and there is no URL that arrives pre-filtered."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambleaware-national-gambling-support-network",
"authority": "GambleAware",
"title": "The National Gambling Support Network — GambleAware",
"url": "https://www.gambleaware.org/tools-and-support/national-gambling-support-network/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Describes the network as spanning Great Britain and states that its services are available only to Great Britain residents — a wider framing than the England-and-Scotland restriction on the same charity's Get help now page. Residual tension between the two pages is worth stating on the site."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gamblers-anonymous-gb",
"authority": "Gamblers Anonymous Great Britain",
"title": "Gamblers Anonymous Great Britain",
"url": "https://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A fellowship, not a clinical or statutory service. Separate bodies exist for GA Scotland and GA Ireland, and Gam-Anon is the separate fellowship for family and friends. Meetings need no appointment; the site does not state a fee, so 'free' must not be quoted to it."
},
{
"id": "uk-about-us",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "About us — Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date shown. The page draws the Commission's own territorial distinction: it regulates 'most types of gambling in Great Britain' but regulates 'The National Lottery in the UK'. Great Britain is not the United Kingdom, and the distinction must not be flattened."
},
{
"id": "kyc-age-and-id-verification-consumer",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Age, ID and financial verification (guide for the public and players)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/age-and-id-verification",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-04-13",
"note": "Four years old at the check date and predates the 2024–2025 GB financial risk check developments."
},
{
"id": "aml-casino-casework-trends-october-2025",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "AML/CTF casino casework trends: October 2025",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/casino-casework-trends-october-2025",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-03",
"note": "The page sets out roughly eleven casework failings. Any summary drawn from it must not imply it reproduces the regulator's complete list."
},
{
"id": "aml-hub",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Anti-money laundering (licensees and businesses hub)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/aml",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-bodies-and-organisations",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Anti-money laundering bodies and organisations",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/list-of-bodies-and-organisations",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-legislation-page",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Anti-money laundering legislation",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/anti-money-laundering-legislation",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-11-12",
"note": "Independently reproduced internal inconsistency: this page lists the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Terrorism Act 2000, the Gambling Act 2005 and the LCCP, and does not mention the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 at all."
},
{
"id": "aml-other-businesses-responsibilities",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Anti-money laundering responsibilities for all other gambling businesses",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/for-all-other-gambling-businesses-aml-responsibilities",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-03",
"note": "The page says nothing about whether the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 apply to non-casino licensees, in either direction."
},
{
"id": "aml-casino-responsibilities",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Anti-money laundering responsibilities for remote and non-remote casinos",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/remote-and-non-remote-casinos-aml-responsibilities",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-applying-for-approval",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Applying for Test House approval",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/applying-for-test-house-approval",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "uk-approved-adr-providers",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Approved alternative dispute resolution (ADR) providers",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/approved-alternative-dispute-resolution-adr-providers",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-01-15",
"note": "Over a year and a half stale at the check date, and the list is volatile — the page already records one removal. It sits in the licensees-and-businesses section, not the consumer section, and the consumer-facing ADR page does not link to it. The page renders one entity as 'ADR group'; reproduce names as the page prints them."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-approved-test-houses",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Approved Test Houses",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/approved-test-houses",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-02",
"note": "Conflicts with the Commission's own test house dataset: the two published lists have materially different memberships and nothing on either page establishes precedence. Neither list may be published as definitive, and no total number of approved GB test houses may be given."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-become-an-approved-provider",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Become an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provider",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/become-an-approved-alternative-dispute-resolution-adr-provider",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-05",
"note": "States that CTSI took over approving gambling ADR providers from April 2026. Where CTSI publishes the approved list was not located and must not be guessed."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gc-block-gambling-payments",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Block gambling payments with your bank",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/page/i-want-to-know-how-to-block-gambling-transactions",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-02-25",
"note": "Stale for a fast-moving subject: roughly 19 months old at the date checked, and bank product features change. Present the eleven named banks as 'as listed by the Commission on 25 February 2025', never as current fact. It is an information page, not a tool — there is no search interface."
},
{
"id": "kyc-withdrawals-blog",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Blog: Key issues and our expectations concerning account withdrawals",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/blog/post/key-issues-and-our-expectations-concerning-account-withdrawals",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-07-18",
"note": "A blog post by the Chief Executive — regulator commentary, not a rule. The "around 2,000 complaints a year about delays to withdrawals" figure is two years old at the check date. When quoting, keep the full sentence, which ends "...should have sought that information earlier if needed"."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-gc-financial-risk-assessments",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Commission to introduce Financial Risk Assessments in staged approach",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/commission-to-introduce-financial-risk-assessments-in-staged-approach",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-07-07",
"note": "GB affordability checks are not a settled regime: this announces a staged approach with the timetable to be confirmed after industry engagement and no enforcement for failure to act in the early stages. The stage-one threshold given applies to players aged 25 and over; whether a lower figure applies to 18 to 24 year olds is unverified."
},
{
"id": "kyc-review-when-id-checks-made",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Commission urges operators to review when customer identity checks are made",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/commission-urges-operators-to-review-when-customer-identity-checks-are-made",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-11-14",
"note": "Published 21 June 2017 — this predates licence condition 17.1.1 (May 2019) and is the compliance finding that led to the rule. Present it historically, not as current guidance."
},
{
"id": "uk-complain-about-a-gambling-business",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complain about a gambling business",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/complain-about-a-gambling-business",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-09-20",
"note": "Carries the Commission's own sentence: 'We do not resolve or make decisions on complaints regarding gambling-related transactions.'"
},
{
"id": "uk-complain-about-an-adr-provider",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complain about an Alternative Dispute Resolution provider",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/page/complain-about-an-alternative-dispute-resolution-provider",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-19",
"note": "States that the Commission 'can't get involved with the ADR provider's decision or ask them to reconsider', and names the Chartered Trading Standards Institute as the government-appointed authority for approving and overseeing ADR bodies under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024. That sits alongside the older approved-providers page (last updated 15 January 2025), which calls the Commission 'the designated competent authority for gambling' under the 2015 ADR Regulations. The two pages cite different instruments of different vintage; do not write either role as a flat present-tense fact."
},
{
"id": "uk-complaints-hub",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints — routes published by the Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/complaints",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date. The hub itself does not restate the Commission's limitation on gambling-transaction disputes; that sentence is on the child page."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-2-defining",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes – 2. Defining complaints and disputes",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/2-defining-complaints-and-disputes",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-01-21"
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-3-handling",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes – 3. Complaints handling requirements",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/3-complaints-handling-requirements",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-07-14"
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-4-time-limits",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes – 4. Time limits and escalation of complaints",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/4-time-limits-and-escalation-of-complaints",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-07-14",
"note": "Time limits protect the process, not the outcome: a minimum window to raise a complaint is not a promise of a decision by any date."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-6-information-to-customers",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes – 6. Information to customers",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/6-information-to-customers",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-01-21"
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-7-information-we-require",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes – 7. Information we require",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/7-information-we-require",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-06-21",
"note": "Sets out what operators must report; it does not say what the Commission does with the reports."
},
{
"id": "uk-adr-requirements-guidance",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes: procedural information, provision and reporting — 5. ADR requirements",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting/5-adr-requirements",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-13",
"note": "The load-bearing qualifier most secondary sources drop: the eight weeks run 'taking into account any times that the clock on the time period may have been paused'. ADR must be free to the customer, and outcomes are binding only where the licensee's terms so provide and the customer agrees — the guidance says licence holders 'may' include such terms."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-guidance-index",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Complaints and disputes: procedural, information provision and reporting requirements (guidance index)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/complaints-and-disputes-procedural-information-provision-and-reporting",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-07",
"note": "Published 1 December 2020."
},
{
"id": "uk-display-of-licensed-status-requirements",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Display of licensed status: technical requirements",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/display-of-licensed-status-technical-requirements",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-11",
"note": "Gives the exact footer wording a consumer should look for, and explains why footers show a short account number: it is 'the first block of 6 digits, removing any leading zeros' where they exist. The Commission also states the footer link must go to the licensee's own register record, not to the register's home or landing page."
},
{
"id": "uk-register-download",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Download the register of gambling businesses",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/businesses/download",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Offers a combined ZIP, an Excel workbook and four CSVs (businesses, trading names, domain names, licences). The page publishes no data dictionary — no column definitions, no status-value definitions and no stated data currency."
},
{
"id": "kyc-emerging-ml-risks-2025",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Emerging money laundering and terrorist financing risks from April 2025",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/emerging-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risks-from-april-2025",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-04-08",
"note": "The consumer-facing assertions drawn from this page were not independently re-fetched in the verification pass and should be re-read before being quoted. The acronym "ARC" is used on the page without being expanded; do not expand it."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-escalating-to-adr",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Escalating to an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/escalating-to-an-alternative-dispute-resolution-adr",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-08-19"
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gc-free-multi-operator-schemes",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Free multi operator and national self-exclusion schemes",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/page/free-multi-operator-and-national-self-exclusion-schemes",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-07",
"note": "The freshest GB page in this set. Lists the sector schemes and their joining routes, including the telephone numbers. Two points the verification pass insisted on: the bingo scheme's own name is BISES (Bingo Industry Self-Exclusion Scheme), and betting-shop self-exclusion is area-based, not national in the way GAMSTOP Online is. Durations for the land-based schemes are not stated."
},
{
"id": "uk-full-register-page-2",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Full register of gambling businesses, page 2",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/businesses/full/2",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Recorded because it proves pagination is a path segment, not a query parameter: this URL returns page 2 of 53, and was re-tested independently. Page numbers cannot be used to link to a particular operator."
},
{
"id": "uk-gambling-and-young-people",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Gambling and young people",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/gambling-and-young-people",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-03",
"note": "Gives the general minimum age as 18 with the Commission's own hedge 'In most cases' — that hedge is what signals the product-by-product variation and should be preserved."
},
{
"id": "uk-gambling-commission-home",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Gambling Commission — official website",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is shown on the homepage. The regulator brands itself 'Gambling Commission' on its own site — it does not use 'UK Gambling Commission' or 'UKGC' in its own header."
},
{
"id": "aml-risk-assessment-2026-notice",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Gambling Commission money laundering risk assessment 2026 published",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/notice/gambling-commission-money-laundering-risk-assessment-2026-published",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-07-30",
"note": "The notice describes the assessment as an update to the 2023 publication; it does not use the word "supersedes". It carries no per-sector risk ratings."
},
{
"id": "kyc-gdpr-guide",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Gambling regulation and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/gambling-regulation-and-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-01-10",
"note": "The five-year wording uses the modal "should" and is about regulatory-compliance data generally — it is not a statement that operators must keep identity documents for five years. The page does not designate the data controller for operator-held customer data."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-lta-part-21",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Guidance to licensing authorities – Part 21: Protection of children and young persons",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-to-licensing-authorities/part-21-protection-of-children-and-young-persons",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-06-14",
"note": "Read only in part during the original research."
},
{
"id": "uk-age-restrictions-guidance-part-16",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Guidance to licensing authorities — Part 16: Age restrictions",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-to-licensing-authorities/part-16-age-restrictions",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-09-14",
"note": "Guidance to licensing authorities, so land-based in focus. It confirms a minimum age of 18 for category A, B and C machines and states there is 'no minimum age for players of category D machines'. It gives no age figures for the National Lottery, society lotteries, football pools, casino, betting, bingo or remote gambling."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-handling-complaints-guide",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Handling complaints and Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) (guidance for licensees)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/handling-complaints-and-alternate-dispute-resolution-adr",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-11",
"note": "Five years old at the check date."
},
{
"id": "kyc-how-long-do-id-checks-take",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "How long does it take to complete ID checks?",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/how-long-does-it-take-to-complete-ID-checks",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-14",
"note": "Five years old at the check date. The page states no timescale can be given, so there is no official service level for completing identity checks, and it does not say what to do if checks stall."
},
{
"id": "uk-how-to-complain",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "How to complain about a gambling business",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/how-to-complain",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-09-20",
"note": "Sets the eight-week window for the operator to resolve a complaint. It also references the third-party tool Resolver while noting 'the Gambling Commission isn't involved in how Resolver's services work'."
},
{
"id": "uk-how-we-tackle-illegal-gambling",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "How we tackle illegal gambling",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us/guide/how-we-tackle-illegal-gambling",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-09-18",
"note": "Carries the single most quotable line for a consumer page: 'A gambling licence issued in another country does not permit an operator to provide gambling to consumers in Great Britain.' It also records the prosecution split — the Commission can institute criminal proceedings in England and Wales, while in Scotland prosecution rests with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service."
},
{
"id": "kyc-identity-verification-guide",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Identity verification (guidance for licensees and businesses)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/identity-verification",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-02-15",
"note": "Over four years old at the check date. The verification pass found the 12-month / 30-day unverified-account rule is also conditional on repeated verification attempts, an attempt to return funds to the original payment method, and fees set out in the operator's terms — do not state the 12-month and 30-day figures alone."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-illegal-online-gambling-phase-1",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Illegal online gambling – Phase 1: exploring consumer pathways into using illegal gambling websites – Executive summary",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/illegal-online-gambling-phase-1-exploring-consumer-pathways-into-using/executive-summary-illegal-online-gambling-phase-1",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-09-18",
"note": "Regulator research, not consumer guidance. Its central finding is that apparent credibility stops people questioning licensing at all, and that some users did not know they had used illegal sites."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-illegal-online-gambling-identifying",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Illegal online gambling: consumer engagement and trends – Identifying illegal gambling websites",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/illegal-online-gambling-consumer-engagement-and-trends/illegal-online-gambling-consumer-engagement-and-trends-identifying-illegal",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-31",
"note": "Published 25 September 2025. This describes the regulator's own methodology for identifying illegal sites; it is not a consumer checklist and contains no logo or seal guidance."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-lccp-3-3-4-time-out",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP 3.3.4 – Remote time-out facility (licence condition)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-3-4-remote-time-out-facility",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No date shown on the page. This is the condition that caps a GB time-out; a time-out is not a self-exclusion, and conflating the two misstates both."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-lccp-3-5-3-remote-sr-code",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP 3.5.3 – Self-exclusion, remote social responsibility code",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-5-3-remote-sr-code",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No date shown. The binding social responsibility code for operator-level self-exclusion in remote gambling, including closing the account and returning the balance."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-lccp-3-5-4-remote-ordinary-code",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP 3.5.4 – Self-exclusion, remote ordinary code",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-5-4-remote-ordinary-code",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No date shown. Status matters here: the familiar GB minimum self-exclusion period lives in an ordinary code, not a licence condition, so presenting it as a legal requirement overstates it."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-lccp-5-1-12-direct-marketing",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP 5.1.12 – Direct marketing preferences (licence condition)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/5-1-12-direct-marketing-preferences",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No date shown. The GB requirement on marketing preferences, relevant because several other jurisdictions bundle a marketing block into self-exclusion itself."
},
{
"id": "uk-lccp-condition-3-5-5",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP condition 3.5.5 — Remote multi-operator self-exclusion (social responsibility code)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-5-5-remote-multi-operator-sr-code",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/deposit-limits/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The provision requires participation in 'the national multi-operator self-exclusion scheme' and does not name GAMSTOP — writing that 3.5.5 requires operators to join GAMSTOP is an interpretation, not a quotation. It applies to remote licences subject to a nine-item exception list. No version or effective date is shown on the condition page."
},
{
"id": "uk-lccp-condition-8-1-1",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP condition 8.1.1 — Display of licensed status: remote operators",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/8-1-1-display-of-licensed-status-remote-operators",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Requires remote licensees to display a licensed-status statement, their account number and a Commission-supplied link to their own register record on every screen from which customers can gamble. Applies to remote casino, bingo and betting licences with named exceptions. No version date shown on the condition page."
},
{
"id": "kyc-lccp-12-1-1",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP licence condition 12.1.1 – Anti-money laundering: Prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/12-1-1-anti-money-laundering-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-terrorist",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is displayed. This condition is how non-casino GB licensees pick up AML duties; it applies far more widely than the casino-only Money Laundering Regulations."
},
{
"id": "kyc-lccp-17-1-1",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP licence condition 17.1.1 – Customer identity verification",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/17-1-1-customer-identity-verification",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The condition page displays no "last updated" date, so its currency cannot be asserted. It is a remote licence condition and does not, on its face, govern land-based premises. The verification pass also found that the dossier's "paragraph 1, verbatim" quotation is only the first sentence of paragraph 1."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-lccp-6-1-1",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP licence condition 6.1.1 – Complaints and disputes",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/6-1-1-complaints-and-disputes",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is displayed."
},
{
"id": "uk-lccp-online",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP online — licence conditions and codes of practice in full",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/online",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Published in three parts. The page shows 'Version effective from 29 July 2026' but no separate last-updated stamp — the LCCP is versioned, so any citation must carry the version date."
},
{
"id": "kyc-lccp-section-17",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP Section 17 – Customer identity verification (conditions index)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/1/17",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Index page only: it lists the single condition in section 17 and carries no substantive wording and no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "uk-lccp-part-2-section-3",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP Section 3 — Protection of children and other vulnerable persons",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/2/3",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Index page only; the provision text lives on the individual condition pages it links to."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-lccp-3-2-1-casinos",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP social responsibility code provision 3.2.1 – Casinos SR code (access to gambling by children and young persons)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-2-1-casinos-sr-code",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is displayed."
},
{
"id": "kyc-lccp-3-2-11",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "LCCP social responsibility code provision 3.2.11 – remote SR code (age verification)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/lccp/condition/3-2-11-remote-sr-code",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is displayed. The verification pass corrected the quotation: the sub-items are lettered (a), (b), (c) — not numbered — and limb (c) reads "gamble with the licensee using either their own money or any free bet or bonus"."
},
{
"id": "uk-licence-activities",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Licence activities — the types of gambling licence",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/licence-activities",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-02-19",
"note": "Lists the licence types, each split into remote and non-remote. It does not define which conduct triggers a licensing requirement in law and does not discuss combined operating licences."
},
{
"id": "uk-lccp-explainer",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/page/licence-conditions-and-codes-of-practice-lccp",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-09",
"note": "Over five years stale at the check date. It gives no statutory basis, no section references, and does not distinguish licence conditions from codes of practice."
},
{
"id": "uk-licensing-objectives",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Licensing objectives",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us/guide/licensing-objectives",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-04-16",
"note": "All three licensing objectives appear in full on the page. An earlier record that two were truncated was an artefact of the first extraction, not a property of the page."
},
{
"id": "uk-make-sure-business-is-licensed",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Make sure that the gambling business is licensed",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/make-sure-that-the-gambling-business-is-licensed",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2020-09-18",
"note": "Six years stale at the check date. It contains none of the crypto, credit-card or non-sterling 'red flags' that search-engine summaries attribute to the Commission — do not cite it for those."
},
{
"id": "kyc-new-age-and-id-rules-2019",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "New age and identity verification rules – changes to the LCCP from Tuesday 7 May",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/new-age-and-identity-verification-rules-changes-to-the-lccp-from-tuesday-7",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-08-27",
"note": "Published 3 May 2019. This is a news article describing a change, not the current consolidated rule. The verification pass could not reproduce any mention of a previous 72-hour verification window on this page; that detail must not be attributed to it."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-gc-new-rules-news",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "New rules boosting safety and consumer choice (Gambling Commission news)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/new-rules-boosting-safety-and-consumer-choice",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-01-31",
"note": "Regulator's own announcement (article dated 1 May 2024, last updated 31 January 2025) of changes including the autoplay position. Its dating is the reason the RTS 13 autoplay wording is recorded as an unresolved conflict rather than a settled point."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-new-standards-news-2018",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "New standards for complaints processes in gambling industry",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/new-standards-for-complaints-processes-in-gambling-industry",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-10-01",
"note": "Eight years old at the check date; historical context rather than current guidance."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-online-slots-stake-limit-guidance",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Online slots stake limit guidance",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/online-slots-stake-limit-guidance",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-06-16",
"note": "The only confirmed, dated, legally grounded online slots stake figures in this research, and they apply to online slots in Great Britain only — not to roulette, blackjack or any other jurisdiction. The statutory instrument number behind the limit was not verified; only its title."
},
{
"id": "aml-opening-accounts-consumer",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Opening accounts (guide for the public and players, print view)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/print/opening-accounts",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Reached only via the print view; the ordinary guide path returns HTTP 404. Recorded as a negative finding: the Commission's consumer account-opening material contains no anti-money-laundering content."
},
{
"id": "uk-opening-accounts",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Opening accounts with a gambling business",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/opening-accounts",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-08-26",
"note": "Confirms the Commission itself tells consumers they may search the public register by 'the company's name, or the name of the website or app', which matches the register's own domain-name search field."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gc-organisations-that-can-help",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Organisations that can help — Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/organisations-that-can-help",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-06",
"note": "Recently updated but carries at least one description the levy transition has overtaken: it still calls the National Problem Gambling Clinic jointly commissioned by GambleAware and NHS England, and its name for the clinic differs from both the trust's and GambleAware's. Numbers are printed here as the Commission prints them, including non-standard spacing. Samaritans appears as a general crisis line, not a gambling service."
},
{
"id": "aml-approach-to-preventing-money-laundering",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Our approach to preventing money laundering",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/approach-to-preventing-money-laundering",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "uk-public-register-consumer-section",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Public register (public and players section)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/public-register",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The consumer-section entry point to the register. Resolves directly, with no redirect."
},
{
"id": "uk-public-register-hub",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Public register of gambling businesses, personal licences, premises and regulatory actions",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/aml-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Links five registers — gambling businesses, personal licences, regulatory actions, public statements, premises — plus a Freedom of Information item. No last-updated date, and the page states no retention period, contrary to what search-engine summaries claim."
},
{
"id": "uk-public-register-service",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Public Register of licensees, premises and regulatory actions — digital service",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/service/public-register",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Service landing page with a 'Start' button into the register. Shows a build identifier ('Release-181') but no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "uk-full-register-of-gambling-businesses",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Register of gambling businesses – full list",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/businesses/full",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Browsable list with activity and remote/non-remote filters applied by an 'Apply filter' button. Query-string search parameters are ignored: five patterns were tested and each returned the unfiltered list, which a reader who does not notice would mistake for a result."
},
{
"id": "uk-register-of-gambling-businesses",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Register of gambling businesses (search)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/businesses",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/casino-license-number/",
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-18",
"note": "The search field is labelled 'Search by business name, trading name, domain name or account number', so domain search is officially supported. Two caveats the register states or demonstrates itself: 'Domain names and trading names are provided by the gambling business' — the domain list is self-reported, not compiled by the regulator — and no Commission page defines what the status values (Active, Expired, Forfeited, Lapsed, Pending, Revoked, Surrendered, Suspended) actually mean. The search is form-driven: there is no link that runs it for you."
},
{
"id": "uk-regulatory-actions-register",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Regulatory actions register",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/regulatory-actions",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Searchable by 'Search by account, operator name or details'. The page states no retention period and does not enumerate the categories of regulatory action; record counts change."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-rts-1-introduction",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Remote gambling and software technical standards – 1. Introduction",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/1-RTS-introduction",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-rts-2-definitions",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Remote gambling and software technical standards – 2. Definition of terms",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/2-definition-of-terms",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-rts-index",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Remote gambling and software technical standards — index of RTS 1 to 17",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/3-remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-31",
"note": "The index that shows how the individual RTS sections fit together and which ones exist; the substantive requirements are on the individual pages."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-rts-guide-landing",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Remote gambling and software technical standards (guide landing page)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page notes RTS updates effective 30 June 2026 but the content of those changes was not read; do not assert what changed."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-rts-12-financial-limits",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "RTS 12 – Financial limits (Remote gambling and software technical standards)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/rts-12-financial-limits",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-31",
"note": "The GB source for deposit-limit mechanics, including the asymmetry that matters to players: a decrease applies immediately while an increase is delayed. Everything here is Great Britain only and must be attributed to it."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-rts-13-time-and-reality-checks",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "RTS 13 – Time requirements and reality checks",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/manual/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/rts-13-time-requirements-and-reality-checks",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-01-21",
"note": "Served from a /manual/ path while the neighbouring RTS pages sit under /standards/ — check the link still resolves before each publication. It requires a reality-check facility with a default at the minimum of the offered range but pins no interval in minutes: any page stating a fixed national interval is inventing it. Its autoplay-acknowledgement wording sits awkwardly beside the Commission's later autoplay ban and is recorded here as an unresolved conflict."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-rts-14-responsible-product-design",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "RTS 14 – Responsible product design",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/rts-14-responsible-product-design",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-01-12",
"note": "The freshest of the RTS pages read. It carries minimum game-cycle speeds but no mandatory break in play for online slots — do not claim GB requires one — and no commencement date was found for the non-slot casino minimum."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-rts-3-rules-and-likelihood",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "RTS 3 – Rules, game descriptions and the likelihood of winning",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/rts-3-rules-game-descriptions-and-the-likelihood-of-winning",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "RTS 3C offers house edge, return-to-player percentage or probability of winning as alternatives, so RTP disclosure is not universal in Great Britain."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-rts-7-random-outcomes",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "RTS 7 – Generation of random outcomes",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/standards/remote-gambling-and-software-technical-standards/rts-7-generation-of-random-outcomes",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gc-safer-gambling",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Safer Gambling — Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/safer-gambling",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date. Both helplines appear with their nation labels — England and Scotland, and Wales — which is the boundary spelled out, so the Commission cannot be said to list them without explanation. A destination label recorded in the original research could not be reproduced on re-fetch (the heading seen was 'Help and support'); do not publish that label as the Commission's wording."
},
{
"id": "uk-self-exclusion",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Self-exclusion — Gambling Commission guidance for the public",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/page/self-exclusion",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-03-27",
"note": "Distinguishes the online scheme from the area- and sector-scoped land-based multi-operator schemes, which it does not name. This refreshed page writes the online scheme's name as 'GAMSTOP ONLINE', while other Commission pages and this register still use 'GAMSTOP' — check the current branding before publication."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-gc-self-exclusion-social-responsibility",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Self-exclusion in social responsibility — Gambling Commission guidance for licensees",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/self-exclusion-in-social-responsibility",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-18",
"note": "Thin and visibly stale — last updated 18 June 2021, over five years old at the date checked. The operative wording is in the individual LCCP condition pages, which are the better citation."
},
{
"id": "uk-self-exclusion-with-gamstop",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Self-exclusion with GAMSTOP — Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/contact-us/guide/page/self-exclusion-with-gamstop",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-02-01",
"note": "Stale, and it conflicts with the LCCP: this page says 'All gambling businesses must participate in this scheme', while social responsibility code provision 3.5.5 applies to remote licences subject to a nine-item exception list. The conflict is recorded, not resolved — describe the LCCP scope and note the exceptions rather than publishing either version as settled."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-summer-2023-premises-av",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Summer 2023 consultation response – Strengthening age verification in premises",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/consultation-response/summer-2023-consultation-proposed-changes-to-lccp-and-rts-consultation/summary-strengthening-age-verification-in-premises",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-05-01",
"note": "Records the move from Think 21 to Think 25, in force 30 August 2024. Casinos are within scope of the change, confirmed on a targeted re-fetch."
},
{
"id": "uk-taking-your-complaint-to-adr",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Taking your complaint to an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provider",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/taking-your-complaint-to-an-alternative-dispute-resolution-adr-provider",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/license-checker/",
"/player-protection/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-15",
"note": "This consumer page carries no link to the Commission's list of approved ADR providers — it routes the consumer via the operator, which 'should be able to tell you which ADR provider to use'. It also records what ADR will not take: customer service issues, and refusal to accept a bet or a customer's custom."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-tell-us-in-confidence",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Tell us something in confidence",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/contact-us/page/tell-us-something-in-confidence",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-09-20",
"note": "This is the route for information the Commission uses for regulation. It is not a route to get money back."
},
{
"id": "uk-tell-us-in-confidence",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Tell us something in confidence — confidential reporting service",
"url": "https://tellus.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The Commission's own reporting service, reached by following the link from its illegal-gambling page; the canonical address was confirmed in the independent verification pass after the first research pass declined to publish one. It takes reports of matters such as unlicensed operation, underage gambling and money-laundering concerns, and it carries a limitation that must travel with any mention of it: 'Complaints received by this service will not be processed.' It is not an alternative to the operator-then-ADR route."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-test-house-dataset",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Test house dataset (public register datasets)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/dataset/test-houses",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Carries no last-updated date, so its currency cannot be established from the page, and its membership differs from the Approved Test Houses guide page."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-test-houses-guide",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Test Houses (guide)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/test-houses",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Cites ISO/IEC 27002 for information-security accreditation, where the 2021 Test House Framework page cites ISO/IEC 27001. The conflict was not resolved."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-test-houses-csv",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "test-houses.csv – test house dataset download",
"url": "https://assets.ctfassets.net/j16ev64qyf6l/6wfdm9pu5kpMxvIVMYQDaT/30991be2f67d25f00c5c7313c82e8989/test-houses.csv",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The download link published on the dataset page. It is a hashed asset URL on the Commission's content delivery host, so it is likely to change when the dataset is republished — prefer the dataset page for linking. The file read as one header row plus fourteen rows."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-strategy-1-summary",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Testing strategy for compliance with remote gambling and software technical standards – 1. Summary",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/strategy/testing-strategy-for-compliance-with-remote-gambling-and-software-technical/1-summary",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Scopes external assurance to the fairness elements of RNG-driven products — a certificate is not a solvency statement or a conduct rating."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-strategy-2-approach",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Testing strategy for compliance with remote gambling and software technical standards – 2. Approach",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/strategy/testing-strategy-for-compliance-with-remote-gambling-and-software-technical/2-procedure-for-testing",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The URL slug for this section reads "procedure-for-testing" while the section itself is headed "Approach"; section 3 uses a near-identical slug. Check the heading, not the address."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-strategy-3-procedure",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Testing strategy for compliance with remote gambling and software technical standards – 3. Procedure for testing",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/strategy/testing-strategy-for-compliance-with-remote-gambling-and-software-technical/3-procedure-for-testing",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-strategy-4-annual-games-testing",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Testing strategy for compliance with remote gambling and software technical standards – 4. Annual games testing",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/strategy/testing-strategy-for-compliance-with-remote-gambling-and-software-technical/4-annual-games-testing",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-risk-assessment-2023-introduction",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The 2023 money laundering and terrorist financing risks within the British gambling industry – Introduction",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-2023-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risks-within-the-british/2023-money-laundering-and-risks-introduction",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-risk-assessment-2026",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The 2026 money laundering and terrorist financing risks within the British gambling industry",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-2026-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risks-within-the-british-gambling-industry",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The individual per-sector risk ratings sit in section pages that were not fetched; do not reuse the 2020 ratings as current."
},
{
"id": "aml-risk-assessment-2020-executive-summary",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The money laundering and terrorist financing risks within the British gambling industry – 1. Executive summary",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/The-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risks-within-the-British-gambling-industry/1-Executive-summary",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "This is the 2020 assessment — two generations out of date at the check date. Its sector ratings must not be presented as current."
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-1-4-role-of-the-commission",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 1.4 The role of the Gambling Commission",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/manual/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-1-4-the-role",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "URL recorded exactly as fetched. This subsection was served under a /manual/ prefix while sibling subsections are cited under /guidance/. Both resolve and the alias is not a dead link, but the verifier recommended the /guidance/ form for durability; that form was not captured as a fetched URL, so the alias is what is recorded here."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-10-identification",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.10 Identification and verification",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-10-Identification-and-verification",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Observed staleness in the official text: this current fifth-edition page still contains a passage referring to the superseded 2003 Regulations, although the operative framework throughout the rest of the guidance is the 2017 Regulations. Single-pass extractions from this page proved unreliable."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-17-cease-transactions",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.17 Requirements to cease transactions or terminate relationship",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-17-Requirements-to-cease-transactions-or-terminate-relationship",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22"
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-6-2-risk-based-cdd",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.2 Risk-based customer due diligence and risk profiling",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/manual/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-2-Risk-based-customer-due-diligence-and-risk-profiling",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "URL recorded exactly as fetched, under the /manual/ alias; the page's own canonical breadcrumb points into /guidance/."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-4-cdd-measures",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.4 Customer due diligence measures",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-4-customer",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Fifth edition (Revision 5), published 13 November 2020. This guidance is addressed to remote and non-remote casino operators, not to every gambling licensee."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-5-timing",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.5 Timing of verification",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-5-timing-of-verification",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "The page does not use the labels "on-entry approach" or "threshold approach"; those sit in adjacent sections."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-7-edd",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.7 Enhanced customer due diligence and enhanced ongoing monitoring",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-7-Enhanced-customer-due-diligence-and-enhanced-ongoing-monitoring",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Source of funds and source of wealth sit in the enhanced tier and are risk-triggered, not universal. Independently confirmed: the page does not say what happens if enhanced due diligence cannot be completed."
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-6-8-threshold",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 6.8 Threshold approach",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-8-threshold-approach",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Live conflict: this page states the casino threshold as €2,000 while legislation.gov.uk's revised text of the same provision states £2,000. Both were fetched on the same day by two analysts and the conflict was reproduced. Do not publish either figure as settled."
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-8-14-tipping-off",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 8.14 Tipping off or prejudicing an investigation",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-8-14-tipping-off-or-prejudicing-an-investigation",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-02-10",
"note": "The page states no maximum penalty. Its offence set also includes section 342 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (prejudicing an investigation), not only section 333A. This is why an operator may be legally unable to explain a delay."
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-8-2-knowledge-and-suspicion",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – 8.2 What is meant by knowledge and suspicion",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-ml-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-8-2-What-is-meant-by-knowledge-and-suspicion",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "kyc-aml-guidance-part-6-index",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – Part 6: Customer due diligence (contents)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-6-Customer-due-diligence",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Contents page only — it carries no substantive wording and should not be cited for any rule. It confirms the guidance is the fifth edition (Revision 5)."
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-part-8-index",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism – Part 8: Suspicious activities and reporting (contents)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-part-8-Suspicious-activities-and-reporting",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Contents page only."
},
{
"id": "aml-guidance-landing",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (guidance for casino operators)",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/the-prevention-of-money-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10-22",
"note": "Fifth edition (Revision 5), published 13 November 2020. No statement that the guidance is HM Treasury-approved was visible on the page; do not assert that it is."
},
{
"id": "uk-types-of-lotteries",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Types of lotteries and their regulations",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/types-of-lotteries-and-their-regulations",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-06-18",
"note": "Visibly stale: it still says the National Lottery age limit 'has recently been changed' to 18, five years on. The figure 18 is confirmed; the framing is not usable verbatim. Search-engine summaries still return the superseded figure of 16 for the National Lottery."
},
{
"id": "uk-unlicensed-gambling-blog",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Unlicensed gambling: our approach to tackling unlicensed gambling",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/blog/post/unlicensed-gambling-our-approach-to-tackling-unlicensed-gambling",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The regulator's own blog, by Chief Executive Andrew Rhodes, dated 21 October 2024. Listed for completeness: no claim in the research rests on it, and it is not a third-party news source.",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-10-21"
},
{
"id": "aml-upcoming-changes-to-mlr-2017",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Upcoming changes to The Money Laundering Regulations 2017",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/notice/upcoming-changes-to-the-money-laundering-regulations-2017",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-06-09",
"note": "Notice of changes in force 30 June 2026, including the conversion of the casino threshold from euros to sterling. The notice does not print the amending instrument's number; that was identified separately from legislation.gov.uk as S.I. 2026/621."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-updated-test-house-framework",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Updated Test House Framework – what this means for operators",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/page/updated-test-house-framework-what-this-means-for-operators",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dates from 2021 and cites ISO/IEC 27001 where the current test house pages cite ISO/IEC 27002. It may simply be stale, but that was not confirmed."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gc-view-playing-history-block-activity",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "View playing history and restrict or block gambling activity",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/page/view-playing-history-and-restrict-or-block-gambling-activity",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-11-12",
"note": "The only device-blocking product named by an official regulator page reached in this research (GamBan). GamCare's own blocking-software page returned 403, so no further tool names are verified from any source here."
},
{
"id": "kyc-what-documents-can-i-be-asked-for",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "What type of documents can I be asked to provide?",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/what-type-of-documents-can-i-be-asked-to-provide",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2020-09-21",
"note": "Six years old at the check date. Its key line — that the Commission does not say which types of information gambling businesses should ask for — means there is no official list of accepted documents; any "documents you will need" list is industry practice, not regulation."
},
{
"id": "kyc-why-do-i-need-to-provide-id",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Why do I need to provide ID?",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/why-do-i-need-to-provide-id",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-04-13",
"note": "Not independently re-fetched in the verification pass."
},
{
"id": "kyc-why-businesses-ask-for-selfies",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Why gambling businesses ask for selfies",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/why-gambling-companies-ask-for-selfies",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2020-09-21",
"note": "Six years old at the check date and not independently re-fetched in the verification pass."
},
{
"id": "kyc-why-businesses-want-to-know-finances",
"authority": "Gambling Commission",
"title": "Why gambling businesses want to know about your finances",
"url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/page/why-gambling-businesses-want-to-know-about-your-finances",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-01-13",
"note": "Predates the GB financial-risk-check policy developments of 2024–2025, which were not verified in this research. The page states no Commission-set deposit or loss threshold and does not say what happens if a customer declines."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-about",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "About the Isle of Man GSC",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gsc-isle-of-man/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Source for the Gambling Supervision Act 2010, the three regulatory objectives and the Commission's land-based and online scope."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-aml-cft-guidance",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "AML/CFT Guidance",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/anti-money-laundering/anti-money-laundering-guidance/",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Superseded versions of the guidance PDFs remain reachable at their old paths, so check the version of any document reached from elsewhere."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-aml-cft-legislation",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "AML/CFT Legislation",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/gambling-anti-money-laundering-legislation/",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Recorded in this dossier's verification pass rather than by the original researcher. This is where the GSC keeps its AML/CFT instruments, including the Gambling (AML/CFT) Code, which is why they do not appear on the secondary-legislation page. The title given here is the site's own navigation label."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-approved-businesses",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Approved Businesses",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/approved-businesses/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Partial read: only the three category tiles were seen. The individual category lists behind them were not opened, so their fields are unverified. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-current-ogra-licence-holders-xlsx",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Current OGRA Licence Holders (XLSX)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/media/vdvl1ztd/26-09-16-current-ogra-licence-holders.xlsx",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-16",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The downloadable version of the register. It has no domain column and no expiry column, so it cannot answer whether a website is licensed; use the web register for that. The filename embeds the update date, so this URL changes at every update and must not be treated as stable."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-former-online-gambling-licence-holders",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Former Online Gambling Licence Holders",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/former-online-gambling-licence-holders/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-16",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Covers cessations from 1 January 2020 onward only; earlier enquiries are directed to a GSC mailbox. The only termination statuses that appear are Surrendered and Cancelled."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-gambling-home",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Gambling Supervision Commission – gambling (home)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is shown on this page."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-anti-money-laundering",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Anti-Money Laundering",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/anti-money-laundering/",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-complain-about-a-licence-holder",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Complain about a licence holder",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/complain-about-a-licence-holder/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The sharpest limitation in this jurisdiction is on this page: UK-based players are excluded from the GSC route entirely and are referred to the UK Gambling Commission. The operator's own process must be exhausted first, the appeal window is 14 calendar days, and the page says the GSC will determine the outcome — it does not say it can award compensation or order a payout. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-complaint-form",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Complaint Form",
"url": "https://gscdigital.powerappsportals.com/GSC-Complaint-Form/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Partial read, twice over: the portal returned a read-only version of the page, so the four-step structure and the exhaustion declaration were visible but live submission behaviour and the fields in steps 2 to 4 remain unverified. Note that it sits on a third-party powerappsportals.com host rather than a GSC domain."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-enforcement",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Enforcement",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/enforcement/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-licensing",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Licensing Division",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/licensing/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-online-gambling-licensee-register",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Online Gambling Licence Holders",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/online-gambling-licensee-register/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-16",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The primary consumer tool, and the only place the GSC publishes website domains alongside licensees. It has no search, no filter and no working query-string deep link: a test query string was fetched and returned the full unfiltered list. Domains are listed only where a licence holder is actively offering services to the public, so a missing domain proves nothing. A site defect worth knowing: the per-supplier Software List links are titled Approved Software Register but point to an August 2025 copy of this same licence-holder register."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-public-statements",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Public Statements",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/enforcement/public-statements/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Renders the full text of each public statement inline, with a downloadable version alongside, rather than a summary. It cites section 19 of the Gambling (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Act 2018 as the power to publish, and explains that the penalties shown are net of a discount applied under the Commission's Discretionary Civil Penalties Policy."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-responsible-gambling-information",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Responsible Gambling Information",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/responsible-gambling-information/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Thin: warning signs and helpline contacts only, with no minimum age, no self-exclusion mechanism, no deposit limits and no reality-check information. It also pairs the GamCare helpline with the gambleaware.org address — two distinct organisations. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gsc-supervision",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "GSC Supervision",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The index page from which the GSC's registers hang."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-licence-application-guidance-pdf",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Guidance for Making an Online Gambling Licence Application (V1.16)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/media/opsgmqbs/online-gambling-guidance-for-making-a-licence-application.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-08-23",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Version 1.16, effective from 23 August 2023. It cites a Gambling Supervision Act 2001 where the GSC's own website says 2010; the conflict was independently reproduced and is recorded, not resolved. It also states that no levy is charged on operators, and its wording on player-fund banking is weaker than the October 2025 requirements document."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-land-based-licence-holders",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Land Based Gambling Licence Holders",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/land-based-licence-holders/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An expandable accordion by category, with fields that vary by category. No last-updated date is shown and no downloadable file was observed."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-participants-money-regulations-2010",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Online Gambling (Participants' Money) Regulations 2010",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/media/x1vbdoko/onlinegambling-participants-money-regulations2010.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A GSC-hosted copy of the instrument rather than a copy served from the Isle of Man legislation site, which refused automated access. It was confirmed to download but was not re-read in full during verification."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-online-gambling-licence",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Online Gambling Licence",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/licensing/online-gambling-licence/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-licensing-requirements-pdf",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Online Gambling Licence — Licensing Requirements (Oct 2025)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/media/550ih5x3/ogra-licensing-licensing-requirements-v1025.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The document footer gives October 2025 and no day. It states that operators must maintain segregated player fund accounts in a bank located in the Isle of Man, with exceptions needing prior written approval from the GSC — which conflicts with the weaker wording in the GSC's own application guidance, where accounts should be in the Isle of Man unless agreed otherwise with the Treasury. Record the conflict rather than the stronger version alone. Its heading for restricted business models is Prohibited or Restricted Models; keep that two-sided label."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-licence-fees-pdf",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Online Gambling Licence Fees (Oct 2025)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/media/mxhgu2pg/ogra-licence-fees-v1025.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-10",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The footer gives October 2025 while the fee schedule itself is marked effective 6 July 2023. The figures were recovered by local PDF text extraction, which can reorder table cells, so the row-to-fee mapping was re-extracted in reading order to confirm it. Note that a licence runs five years but the fee is annual."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-player-protection-principles",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Player Protection Principles of the GSC",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/player-protection-information/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Player-fund protection here is limited to recreational gamblers, and one of the six permitted mechanisms is an open-ended other mechanisms, so the strength of protection varies by operator and the register does not show which mechanism an operator uses. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-primary-gambling-legislation",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Primary Gambling Legislation",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/primary-gambling-legislation/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An index only. Its links run to legislation.gov.im, which refused automated access, so every statutory claim resting on it comes from GSC guidance rather than from the instrument itself. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-prohibited-persons",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Prohibited Persons",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/enforcement/prohibited-persons/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A register of individuals, made under section 26 of the Gambling (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Act 2018. Entry counts are a snapshot."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-register-of-discretionary-civil-penalties",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Register of Discretionary Civil Penalties",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/enforcement/register-of-discretionary-civil-penalties/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Every entry on the date checked rested on section 22 of the Gambling (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Act 2018, so this register reflects AML enforcement rather than player-facing conduct. Entry counts are a snapshot."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-secondary-gambling-legislation",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Secondary gambling legislation (Isle of Man)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/secondary-gambling-legislation/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Hard to read reliably and partly self-contradictory. Every regulation title is a graphic with an empty alt attribute, so the titles are recoverable only from image filenames and link targets, not from page text, and they are invisible to screen readers. On the Exclusions Regulations the page's own title graphic says 2010 while its link target says 2009. Several other links are mismatched or malformed. AML/CFT instruments are not listed here; they sit on a separate AML/CFT Legislation page. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-software-supplier-register",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Software Supplier Register",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/software-supplier-register/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Recorded in this dossier's verification pass rather than by the original researcher. A second official place where website addresses appear: it lists, per supplier, company name, website address where known, contact details, a product list and the date that product list was last updated."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-supervision-guidance-documents",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Supervision Guidance and Procedure Documents",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/supervision/supervision-guidance-and-procedure-documents/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-unlicensed-gambling-websites",
"authority": "Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Unlicensed Gambling Websites",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/gambling/unlicensed-gambling-websites/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Recorded in this dossier's verification pass rather than by the original researcher, and the GSC register aimed most directly at the question is this website legitimate? It is a two-column table of website address and date added, keyed on domains, with entries running back to 2018, covering sites that purport to be GSC-licensed. The title here is taken from the page path, as the verification recorded the page's content but not a formal title."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gamcare-blocking-software",
"authority": "GamCare",
"title": "Blocking software — GamCare self-help",
"url": "https://www.gamcare.org.uk/self-help/blocking-software/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, as with every other GamCare path tried — site-wide bot protection, not a dead page. Because it could not be read, no blocking-tool names from GamCare are usable; the only officially named tool in this research comes from the Gambling Commission's own page."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gamcare-homepage",
"authority": "GamCare",
"title": "GamCare homepage — support for anyone affected by gambling harms",
"url": "https://www.gamcare.org.uk/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, independently reproduced. Every GamCare fact used anywhere in this research is therefore second-hand, from the Gambling Commission, the NHS and GambleAware: helpline hours, channel availability, current commissioner and the Wales position could not be confirmed on GamCare's own authority."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gamcare-talk-to-us-now",
"authority": "GamCare",
"title": "Talk to us now — GamCare helpline and live chat",
"url": "https://www.gamcare.org.uk/get-support/talk-to-us-now/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403, the second GamCare path refused, which shows the blocking is site-wide rather than a dead page. The contact routes and their hours could not be read here."
},
{
"id": "uk-gamstop-about",
"authority": "GAMSTOP",
"title": "About | Gamstop Online",
"url": "https://www.gamstop.co.uk/about",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "States a range of 'from 6 months up to 5 years' with an automatic renewal option, and that 'Once you've registered, you cannot cancel your registration during the exclusion period.' It does not enumerate discrete durations and does not state an activation delay. Note what the scheme actually blocks: signing up for or using online accounts with gambling companies licensed in Great Britain. It does not make gambling websites unreachable, and copy that says so sets a false expectation."
},
{
"id": "uk-gamstop-home",
"authority": "GAMSTOP",
"title": "Gamstop Online — national online self-exclusion scheme homepage",
"url": "https://www.gamstop.co.uk/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/deposit-limits/",
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The scheme's own site, authoritative for its corporate identity but not the regulator: it is operated by The National Online Self Exclusion Scheme Limited, Registered No. 10504973. The site now leads with the brand 'Gamstop Online'."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gamstop-participating-companies",
"authority": "GAMSTOP",
"title": "Participating companies | Gamstop Online",
"url": "https://www.gamstop.co.uk/participating-companies",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-05",
"note": "A static alphabetical list with no search control and no query-string parameter: use the browser's own find-in-page. It is not a licence register — presence on it is an integration fact, not a regulatory endorsement, and the list goes stale between updates."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-gamstop-terms-of-use",
"authority": "GAMSTOP",
"title": "Terms of Use | Gamstop Online",
"url": "https://www.gamstop.co.uk/terms-of-use",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The strongest official statement that a national scheme does not reach non-participating operators, plus the exact period options, the deactivation request and 24-hour cooling-off, and the seven-year post-exclusion notification period. One qualification from the verification pass: the Terms enumerate a single 'home address (including post code)', so advice to enter every address ever used is unsupported — the multiple-entry requirement is explicit only for email addresses and mobile numbers."
},
{
"id": "uk-gamstop-help-what-is-self-exclusion",
"authority": "GAMSTOP",
"title": "What is self-exclusion? — GAMSTOP help centre article",
"url": "https://info.gamstop.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/7537077891602-What-is-self-exclusion",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/casino-license-number/",
"/gambling-licenses/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/how-to-check-gambling-license/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/uk-gambling-commission/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "Returned HTTP 403 Forbidden to automated requests and the body was not retrieved. This is the page that would settle the discrete self-exclusion durations, any activation delay and post-expiry retention; until a human opens it in a browser, none of those are stated here."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-ggl-faq-einzahlungslimit",
"authority": "Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL)",
"title": "FAQ zur Erhöhung des anbieterübergreifenden Einzahlungslimits bei Online-Glücksspielen und zur Prüfung der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit",
"url": "https://www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de/de/news/haeufig-gestellte-fragen-faq-zur-erhoehung-des-anbieteruebergreifenden-einzahlungslimits-bei-online-gluecksspielen-und-die-pruefung-der-wirtschaftlichen-leistungsfaehigkeit",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-25",
"note": "German-language page. It explains the tiers above the standard cross-provider ceiling and the proof of economic capability they require, but it does not state how long a German limit change takes to take effect, and it cites the legal basis for stake limits without giving the figure — neither may be filled in."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-gluestv-2021-consolidated-pdf",
"authority": "Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL)",
"title": "Konsolidierte Fassung des Glücksspielstaatsvertrags 2021 mit Änderungen von 2022 (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de/images/pdf/20250131_Konsolidierte%20Fassung%20des%20GluStV%202021%20mit%20Anderungen%20von%202022.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Downloaded (196 KB) but not parsed — no text was read, so nothing on this site rests on its contents. It is the document that would settle the German limit-increase delay, the per-spin stake cap and any mandatory break in play. The filename encodes a version date, so the link is likely to change at the next consolidation."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-ggl-spielerschutz-uebersicht",
"authority": "Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL)",
"title": "Spielerschutz: Die Spielerschutzmaßnahmen des GlüStV 21 im Überblick",
"url": "https://www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de/de/fuer-spielende/die-spielerschutzmassnahmen-des-gluestv21-im-ueberblick",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-26",
"note": "German-language page; translation is the researcher's. Germany is structurally different from the other jurisdictions here: a cross-provider monthly deposit ceiling enforced through central files, rather than a limit set with one operator. Those files are back-end supervisory systems, not consumer lookups — no interface was seen. The page does not state a mandatory break in play."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-generic-code-2012",
"authority": "Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner",
"title": "Code of Practice for the Gambling Industry — The Generic Code v1.0.2012",
"url": "https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/new/sites/default/files/HMGoG_Documents/Generic%20Code%20v1.0.2012_0.pdf",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2012-10-10",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Visibly stale but still the operative code. Date taken from its own version history (first published 13/12/2008, amended 10/10/2012). It cross-references the repealed Gambling Act 2005, names industry bodies as they stood in 2012 and prints superseded contact addresses that must not be published as live routes. Its player-protection wording is permissive — licence holders are expected to, not required to — and self-exclusion under it is limited to matters under the operator's control. A draft replacement was out for consultation until 9 October 2026 and is not in force."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-gra-homepage",
"authority": "Gibraltar Regulatory Authority",
"title": "Gibraltar Regulatory Authority (homepage)",
"url": "https://www.gra.gi/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Included to correct the most common factual error about Gibraltar: the GRA does not regulate gambling. Its own homepage lists communications, data protection, broadcasting, postal, competition, higher education and cyber security, with zero occurrences of gambling or gaming."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gambling-therapy",
"authority": "Gordon Moody",
"title": "Gambling Therapy — online support for gambling harms worldwide",
"url": "https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Explicitly a charity (Gordon Moody, registered charity No. 1124751), not a regulator or statutory body in any jurisdiction, and must be labelled as such wherever it sits beside regulators. The homepage lists 39 language forums. It shows no one-to-one counselling, group meetings, app or staffed hours, so no 24/7 or live-chat claim can be made from it."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-gambling-act-2005-entry",
"authority": "Government of Gibraltar — Gibraltar Laws",
"title": "Gambling Act 2005 — legislation entry (status: Repealed)",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legislations/gambling-act-2005-1344",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2021-02-09",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The official record that the 2005 Act is marked REPEALED. Useful precisely because other official Gibraltar pages still cite it as current law."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-gambling-act-2025-entry",
"authority": "Government of Gibraltar — Gibraltar Laws",
"title": "Gambling Act 2025 — legislation entry",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legislations/gambling-act-2025-8374",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Linked from the official Getting Licensed page. Records the amending Gambling (Amendment) Act 2026 (2026-12) with effect from 1 April 2026."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-gambling-act-2025-pdf",
"authority": "Government of Gibraltar — Gibraltar Laws",
"title": "Gambling Act 2025 (Act No. 2026-04), consolidated",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/uploads/legislations/gambling/2026-04/2026-04o.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A 157-page PDF: it returns HTTP 200 but as binary that HTML-to-markdown fetchers cannot read, so any re-verification needs a PDF text extractor. Part 5 (sections 55 to 77), the regime for regulated individuals, is expressly excluded from the 1 April 2026 commencement and is not in force. A word-level search of the full text returns zero occurrences of self-exclusion in any spelling."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-laws-gambling-topic-index",
"authority": "Government of Gibraltar — Gibraltar Laws",
"title": "Legislations index — gambling topic",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legislations?topic=275",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Lists Gibraltar's gambling instruments from 1958 to 2026. Two passes counted the instruments differently and neither count was derived reliably, so publish no instrument count. Several named instruments, including the fees regulations, were seen only as index entries and not fetched."
},
{
"id": "malta-sl-583-5-gaming-authorisations",
"authority": "Government of Malta",
"title": "Gaming Authorisations Regulations (S.L. 583.5)",
"url": "https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/583.5/eng/pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-08-16",
"note": "Only landing metadata came back — title, ELI identifier and a point-in-time date of 16/08/2018 — with no regulation text extracted. Nothing here is quoted from it. This is the instrument a human must read to settle the licence duration and the suspension and cancellation provisions."
},
{
"id": "malta-sl-583-8-player-protection-html",
"authority": "Government of Malta",
"title": "Gaming Player Protection Regulations (S.L. 583.8)",
"url": "https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/583.8/eng",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-08-16",
"note": "Re-tested independently and still returns metadata only, with a point-in-time date of 16/08/2018. This is why no statutory minimum gambling age for Malta is stated on this site: the number 18 could not be read from the instrument, and the MGA's own pages do not state it."
},
{
"id": "malta-sl-583-8-player-protection-pdf",
"authority": "Government of Malta",
"title": "Gaming Player Protection Regulations (S.L. 583.8) — PDF",
"url": "https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/583.8/eng/pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-08-16",
"note": "Same failure mode as the other legislation.mt attempts: metadata only, no substantive text."
},
{
"id": "ontario-elaws-igaming-ontario-act-2024",
"authority": "Government of Ontario",
"title": "iGaming Ontario Act, 2024",
"url": "https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/24i20a",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "Two independent attempts failed in two different ways: one returned a JavaScript-only e-Laws shell with no statute body (retried with an anchor, same result), the other died with a socket hang up. The statute text remains unread, so the Act's chapter citation, Royal Assent date, section numbers and stated objects must not be written."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-government-rules",
"authority": "Government of the Netherlands",
"title": "Games of chance: rules and supervision",
"url": "https://www.government.nl/themes/justice-security-and-defence/games-of-chance/rules-for-games-of-chance",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The best English official statement of the six-month rule — players on the register may not gamble for at least six months at any provider with a Dutch licence — and confirmation that the Kansspelautoriteit manages the register. The older path for this page under /topics/ now redirects here and its parent returns 404, so cite this address."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-government-2024-measures",
"authority": "Government of the Netherlands",
"title": "Measures introduced to ensure better protection for online gamblers",
"url": "https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2024/10/01/measures-introduced-to-ensure-better-protection-for-online-gamblers",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-10-01",
"note": "Two cautions. Its deposit-limit sentence is about the cap a new adult player may set, not about the operator's duty to make contact, so it does not corroborate that duty. And it calls the Dutch scheme a gamstop, which is the name of the UK scheme and appears to be a mistranslation; do not repeat that wording."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-dcms-white-paper",
"authority": "HM Government (DCMS)",
"title": "High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age",
"url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-stakes-gambling-reform-for-the-digital-age/high-stakes-gambling-reform-for-the-digital-age",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-04-27",
"note": "A 2023 policy paper. It committed to a gambling ombudsman, but nothing verifying that body's launch, scope, funding or name was found — do not state that it exists or is operating."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-finance-centre-regulatory-environment",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Finance Centre",
"title": "Regulatory environment",
"url": "https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/finance-gaming-and-regulations/regulatory-environment",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Stale and contradicted by the regulator's own site. It still states that all gambling operations in Gibraltar require licensing under the Gambling Act 2005, which is repealed, and it lists the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority alongside the Gambling Commissioner. It shows no last-updated date. Included as evidence of the conflict, not as a statement of current law."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-finance-centre-remote-gambling",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Finance Centre",
"title": "Remote Gambling (finance, gaming and regulations)",
"url": "https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/finance-gaming-and-regulations/remote-gambling",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Carries no legislative reference of its own and directs readers to the Gambling Division site."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-complaint-resolution-request-form",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Commissioner",
"title": "Complaint Resolution Request Form (CRRF) V 1.0.10",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/uploads/Complaints%20Documents/CRRF%20V%201.0.10%20word.docx",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The form a player must complete and email to the Commissioner. The filename embeds a version number, so this URL will break when the form is revised; link readers to the Complaints page and let them click through."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-complaints",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Commissioner",
"title": "Complaints (Gambling Division, Gibraltar)",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/complaints",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Unusually candid about its own limits: the Commissioner will not take a complaint by telephone, will not normally look at events more than two years old, does not have a formal power to order consumer redress on his own volition, and is largely displaced for gambling taking place in the UK since 1st November 2014 by the UK ADR system. The published acceptance test refers to remote licence holders; whether non-remote complaints are accepted is unaddressed."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-consumer-warnings",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Commissioner",
"title": "Consumer Warnings",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/consumer-warnings",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-01-07",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Warnings about sites falsely asserting Gibraltar regulation. The page itself carries no last-updated date; the date recorded here is the newest of its 20 per-entry Information provided as at stamps, which run back to 31 March 2016."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-about-us",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "About Us",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/about",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Places the Division within the Ministry of Justice Trade and Industry and states that it covers both remote (online) and land based commercial gambling, excluding the Government lottery and genuine free prize draws."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-duties-and-fees-guidelines",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Administrative Guidelines — Duties and Fees (v2)",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/uploads/Guidance%20Documents/Administrative%20Guidelines%20-%20Duties%20and%20Fees%20(v2).pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-06-12",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Date taken from the document's own version-control block (first release 30.04.2026, amended 12.06.2026). It explains the licensing year and payment mechanics but states that the Regulations prevail; the fee schedules themselves were not read, so no Gibraltar fee figure is verified. The filename embeds a version marker and will break on revision."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-aml-cft-cpf",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "AML/CFT/CPF",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/aml-cft-cpf",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Partial read: retrieved for a keyword check only, and its contents were not analysed. Do not attribute any substantive AML rule to this page."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-approved-testing-facilities",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Approved Testing Facilities",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/approved-testing-facilities",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The table numbers rows 1 to 11 but one number covers two entities, so it lists 12 facilities under 11 numbers as at 18 September 2026. Publish it that way or publish no number."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-consultations",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Consultations",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/consultations",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Recorded in this dossier's verification pass rather than by the original researcher. It carries a Consultation on the Draft Safer Gambling Code of Conduct with a 9 October 2026 response deadline. The draft is not law and must never be described as a current requirement; even the draft keeps self-exclusion at operator level."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-contact",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Contact",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/contact",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Publishes the Europort address, a single licensing email address and a telephone number that conflicts with the number printed in the Division's own duties and fees guidance. The conflict was reproduced independently and is recorded, not resolved."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-gambling-division-home",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Gambling Division (Gibraltar) – home",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Sets out Gibraltar's three-part structure in the regulator's own words: the Licensing Authority who is the designated Minister, and the gambling regulator who is the Gambling Commissioner. No page on this site displays a last-updated date; the footer shows only a 2026 copyright."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-online-applications-portal",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Gambling Division Online Applications",
"url": "https://register-gamblingdivision.egov.gi/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Despite the hostname beginning with register-, this is an applicant-facing licence application portal, not a public register. It opens at an email-verification screen; nothing beyond it was accessed and nothing was submitted. Do not link consumers here."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-getting-licensed",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Getting Licensed",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/getting-licensed",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "States that holders licensed under the Gambling Act 2005 are deemed to be licensed under the Gambling Act 2025 and that a transition period runs from 1 April 2026 for six months. Existing holders are not required to re-apply, contrary to some trade commentary. Nothing located states how long a Gibraltar licence lasts."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-guidance",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Guidance – Gambling Division (Gibraltar)",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/guidance",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Carries the regulator's own savings statement: the Codes of Practice issued under the previous Gambling Act remain in force until new Codes have been issued by the Gambling Commissioner. It also links a Remote Technical and Operating Standards document that was not independently fetched and must not be cited as verified."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-public-statements",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Public Statements",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/public-statements",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-06-09",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An index of 13 linked items dated 18 February 2022 to 09 June 2026; the date recorded here is the newest item, not a page date. Only titles, dates and URLs were read; the individual statement pages were not fetched, so penalty amounts and findings are unverified."
},
{
"id": "gibraltar-register-of-licence-holders",
"authority": "HM Government of Gibraltar — Gambling Division",
"title": "Register of Licence Holders",
"url": "https://gamblingdivision.gov.gi/licence-holders",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gibraltar-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A static HTML table with no search, no filter and no working query-string deep link: a query-string variant was fetched and came back byte-identical to the bare URL. It shows no licence number, issue date, expiry date, status or approved domain, and carries no date of its own. Licence numbers and brand names appear only inside each row's linked Approved Brands PDF, most of which print a Content as from date that is the best currency signal available."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-about",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "About iGaming Ontario",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/about-igaming-ontario",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned navigation and menu structure only, with no substantive body content about iGO's mandate, legal status or reporting relationship."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-annual-report-2024-2025",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Annual Report 2024-2025",
"url": "https://igamingontario.ca/en/annual-report-2024-2025",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The only verified source for iGO's continuation under the iGaming Ontario Act, 2024 on 12 May 2025 as a corporation without share capital. Its market figures are fiscal-year figures, not current ones, and its count of operating agreements is a different measure from the directory's operator count."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-betguard-launch-announcement",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "BetGuard — centralized self-exclusion for Ontario iGaming (iGaming Ontario news)",
"url": "https://igamingontario.ca/en/news/betguard-centralized-self-exclusion-ontario-igaming",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-05-14",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms the 14 May 2026 launch, the 19+ eligibility and coverage of all Ontario regulated igaming sites including OLG. It does not mention land-based or in-person casinos anywhere, so the land-based carve-out must be cited to OLG's My PlayBreak page instead. It lists a custom term that AGCO's standards bulletin does not."
},
{
"id": "ontario-betguard-faq",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "BetGuard FAQ",
"url": "https://www.betguard.ca/gp/en/faq/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Returned only a scroll-to-content navigation element. This is the page that would authoritatively answer coverage, term and end-of-term questions, and it could not be read."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-igaming-ontario-find-help",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Find Help — iGaming Ontario",
"url": "https://igamingontario.ca/en/player/find-help",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date. Lists the crisis line, BetGuard, ConnexOntario, CAMH, Credit Canada and two blocking tools; PlaySmart and OLG are not named here, so do not assert them from this page. A quoted description of CAMH's service used in earlier notes did not appear on re-fetch — the page describes CAMH only as offering specialised services for Ontarians whose gambling has caused difficulties."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-homepage",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "iGaming Ontario homepage",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The dossier records the page's own title only as Homepage."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-operators-directory",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Operators",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/operator/operators",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-01",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The real consumer-facing directory. Two traps: the Number of Operators and Number of Gaming Websites counters are market-wide totals that do not move when a filter is applied, so a filtered page still reads the same figures; and the cards carry no registration number, status, effective date or expiry date, so the listing shows presence, not standing."
},
{
"id": "ontario-betguard",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Opt out of online gambling in Ontario | BetGuard",
"url": "https://betguard.ca/gp/en/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Ontario's centralized self-exclusion service. Two independent fetches returned only the page title and a skip link; the body is rendered by JavaScript. Nothing about its sign-up flow, required documents, exact term options or end-of-term behaviour could be read from the service itself."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-betguard",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Opt out of online gambling in Ontario | BetGuard",
"url": "https://www.betguard.ca",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "The site resolves but returned only a JavaScript shell — the document title above and a skip link were all that could be read. Its screens, fields and enrolment flow are undocumented in this research and must not be described. The title is the page's own <title> as returned."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-player-faqs",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Player FAQs",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/player/player-faqs",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Source for the 19+ and physically-in-Ontario conditions and for the logo advice. It links to the Regulated iGaming Market page rather than directly to the filterable directory."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-player-support",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Player Support",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/player/player-support",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "States that iGO does not resolve or decide disputes about gambling-related transactions. Its onward complaint link runs into AGCO's iAGCO portal; there is no verified iGO-operated complaint form. The page states no 90-day period, only that a player should allow time based on the operator's service standards."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-regulated-igaming-market",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Regulated iGaming Market",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/player/regulated-igaming-market",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines the official phrase fully registered and authorized Operator as AGCO registration plus an iGO operating agreement, with OLG.ca as the stated exception. This is also the page AGCO's register pointer actually links to."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-igaming-ontario-directory",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Regulated igaming market directory",
"url": "https://igamingontario.ca/en/player/regulated-igaming-market",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-01",
"note": "A point-in-time snapshot, not a live register — the page states the listing is accurate as of 1 September 2026. It does carry a search box and operator and category dropdowns, correcting the original research note that it was browse-only."
},
{
"id": "ontario-igo-responsible-gambling",
"authority": "iGaming Ontario",
"title": "Responsible Gambling",
"url": "https://www.igamingontario.ca/en/player/responsible-gambling",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The official player-facing route to BetGuard. It names no Ontario helpline number."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-iomgsc-home",
"authority": "Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission",
"title": "Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission (home)",
"url": "https://www.isleofmangsc.com/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-gov-gambling-landing",
"authority": "Isle of Man Government",
"title": "Gambling landing page (crest link target)",
"url": "https://www.gov.im/gambling",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "This is the URL the Isle of Man Government crest on every licensed operator's site must link to, which makes it part of the consumer verification chain. It returned a Request Rejected firewall page on both attempts, so its contents are unknown and must not be described."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-gov-im-gsc-legislation",
"authority": "Isle of Man Government",
"title": "Gambling Supervision Commission – legislation (gov.im)",
"url": "https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/statutory-boards/gambling-supervision-commission/legislation/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "Rejected by a web application firewall ("The requested URL was rejected"). The Commission's own domain, isleofmangsc.com, served successfully and is the better route."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-2016-amendment-regulations-guidance-pdf",
"authority": "Isle of Man Government",
"title": "Guidance for Online Gambling (Amendments) Regulations 2016",
"url": "https://www.gov.im/media/1355106/guidance-for-online-gambling-amendments-regulations-2016.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "Blocked by the same firewall as the rest of gov.im. Nothing in it is relied on."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-ogra-2001-pdf",
"authority": "Isle of Man Government",
"title": "Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001 (PDF)",
"url": "https://legislation.gov.im/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/2001/2001-0010/2001-0010_8.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "The Island's principal online gambling statute, and a first-rate source: the official legislation site returned a web application firewall page reading Request Rejected with a support ID. The Act's own text on licence duration, the register-keeping duty, minors provisions and suspension or revocation powers therefore could not be read, and none of it is asserted anywhere from this dossier."
},
{
"id": "isle-of-man-legislation-primary-index",
"authority": "Isle of Man Government",
"title": "Primary legislation index",
"url": "https://legislation.gov.im/cms/en/legislation/primary.html",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/isle-of-man-gambling-regulation/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "Same firewall response, independently reproduced. Whether the site offers a working search for a human visitor is unknown; it may simply be blocking automated agents."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-ten-tips",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "10 tips for gambling safely",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/10-tips-gambling-safely",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The regulator's own English source for the duty on operators to make contact when a player exceeds a monthly deposit limit of 350 euro, or 150 euro for players aged 18 to 24. That contact duty is a different mechanism from the net deposit ceiling in the responsible-play policy rule; the two are often conflated."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-illegal-online-gambling",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Aanpak illegale online gokspelen — action against illegal online gambling",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/aanpak-illegale-online-gokspelen",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page. Notable for extending the regulator's approach beyond operators to facilitators — websites, apps, affiliates, influencers, payment providers and internet service providers. It shows no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-enforcement-overview",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Aanpak misstanden — how the Dutch regulator tackles abuses",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/aanpak-misstanden",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language index of enforcement subjects. No published list of illegal operators was found here or on the sub-pages read — an absence, not a proof of absence. The practical substitute is the register: an operator that is not in it is not licensed."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-advertising-rules",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Belangrijkste regels voor kansspelreclame — the main rules for gambling advertising",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/belangrijkste-regels-voor-kansspelreclame",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page. Advertising may not target people aged 18 to 24, and at least 95 percent of the people an advertisement reaches must be 24 or older — framed as an obligation of result. It shows no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-licensing-policy-2026",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Beleidsregels vergunningverlening kansspelen op afstand 2026 — remote gambling licensing policy rules",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/beleidsregels-vergunningverlening-kansspelen-op-afstand-2026",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page. Licences run five years, and the first cohort issued in September 2021 expires on 1 October 2026 — so register entries and validity dates will churn heavily around that date. The underlying policy text in the official gazette was not fetched."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-home",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Centraal Register Uitsluiting Kansspelen (Cruks) — the Dutch national self-exclusion register",
"url": "https://cruksregister.nl/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "A plain fetch of any page on this site returns the document title and nothing else, so everything recorded from it was read in a browser and could not be re-verified independently. The one figure that is corroborated elsewhere is the six-month minimum, which also appears on the regulator's own site and on government.nl. The register covers gambling sites, arcades and casinos holding a Dutch licence, and the regulator states it cannot exclude anyone from illegal operators. Note the domain: the intuitively shorter cruks.nl is a commercial third-party site, not this register."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-register-another",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Cruks — Een ander inschrijven, applying to register another person",
"url": "https://cruksregister.nl/eenAnderInschrijven",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Browser-only. An eight-step application whose steps show what evidence is expected, including harm caused and steps already taken. The substantive eligibility criteria sit behind a separate information page that was not opened."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-gokstop",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Cruks — Gokstop nemen, registering a gambling stop",
"url": "https://cruksregister.nl/Gokstop",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Browser-only. Registration runs through a three-step wizard behind a DigiD login, which in practice limits online self-registration to people who have one; paper forms are linked as a fallback."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-help",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Cruks — Hulp & Info, the self-exclusion register's help and FAQ",
"url": "https://cruksregister.nl/hulp",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Browser-only, and its answers open only after expanding the accordion, so nothing here could be independently re-verified. It is the source for the eight-day cooling-off period on ending an exclusion, the six-week objection window after an involuntary registration, and the statements that a gambling stop does not halt marketing, does not touch an account balance and does not trigger refunds."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-english-form",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Cruks registration form in English (PDF)",
"url": "https://cruksregister.nl/Inschrijven_Cruks_ENG.pdf",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirmed to exist and to be a real PDF of about 136 KB, but its text could not be extracted, so the fields it asks for and the way it words the six-month minimum are unverified. It is the only English-language Cruks artefact confirmed; the site's interface is Dutch throughout."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-ksa-english",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "English — Kansspelautoriteit, the Netherlands Gambling Authority",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/english/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The regulator describes itself here as an independent administrative body supervising gambling services, established in 2012. The English section is thin: the Cruks duties, the complaints route, advertising rules and licensing policy exist only in Dutch."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-gokstop-for-another",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Gokstop voor een ander aanvragen — applying for a gambling stop on someone else's behalf",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/gokstop-voor-een-ander-aanvragen-0",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page covering the three routes — relative, friend or employee; curator; administrator — and confirming the six-month minimum applies to involuntary registrations too. The numeric suffix in the path is the live URL the regulator links to, but it looks like a content-management artefact and may not be stable."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-kansspelwijzer",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Kansspelwijzer — register of providers licensed to offer gambling in the Netherlands",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/kansspelwijzer",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The register on this page is an iframe served from the regulator's own prevention site. Do not use the search box in the page furniture: that is the Kansspelautoriteit's site-wide website search, which searches the regulator's site and not the register. Search inside the embedded register panel instead."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-kansspelwijzer-host",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Kansspelwijzer on OpenOverGokken — the host that serves the register data",
"url": "https://openovergokken.nl/kansspelwijzer/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "OpenOverGokken states it is an initiative of the Kansspelautoriteit; its footer carries a 2025 copyright line and the register shows no last-updated stamp. A plain fetch does return a server-rendered listing, but search, filtering and paging need JavaScript, and no query-string search parameter works — four were tested and every one returned the unfiltered list. The host also serves an incomplete TLS certificate chain, so some automated clients fail to verify it while browsers and curl do not."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-koa-portal",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Koa-portaal — the Dutch remote gambling licensing portal for operators",
"url": "https://koaportaal.nl/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Linked site-wide by the regulator but returned an empty JavaScript shell, so its contents are unverified. It is a licensee and applicant login, not a consumer tool."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-ksa-english-landing",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Netherlands Gambling Authority — English landing page",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/netherlands-gambling-authority",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A second English entry point reached from the site's language switcher; its content overlaps the other English page."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-online-licence",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Online kansspel aanbieden — offering online gambling in the Netherlands",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/online-kansspel-aanbieden",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page setting out the four categories of higher-risk online gambling that need a remote gambling licence."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-register-licensees",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Register of licensees — English explainer for the Dutch licence register",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/register-licensees",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An explainer, not the register itself: it tells a reader to search the company name, website, app or licence number, and links onward to the Dutch register tool."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-sanction-decisions",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Sanctiebesluiten — published Dutch gambling sanction decisions",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/sanctiebesluiten",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A reverse-chronological browse list in Dutch. Paging works through a page parameter — the last page link is page 14 on a zero-indexed pager, so fifteen pages in all — but there is no keyword search; the search box on the page is the regulator's site-wide search. The measures named on the list itself include last onder dwangsom, boete, aanwijzing, bestuursdwang and invordering."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-player-check",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Speler checken in Cruks — how operators check a player against the exclusion register",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/speler-checken-cruks",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page describing the check on citizen service number, name and date of birth, the pseudonymised Crukscode and the hit or no-hit answer, operative since 1 October 2021. It does not state how often the check must be repeated, so any claim that it happens at every login is unverified."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-report-problem",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Stel een vraag of doe een melding over een kansspel — ask a question or report a gambling problem",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/contact/probleem-melden/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "redirected",
"note": "Redirects to the regulator's current explainer page. Dutch-language. This is where the regulator states that it cannot solve a player's problem, cannot mediate personally, and gives no individual feedback on a report; reports feed market oversight, not redress."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-question-form",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Stel een vraag over het Cruksregister — ask a question about the Cruks register",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/stel-een-vraag-over-het-cruksregister",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language form, separate from the general gambling report form."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-report-form",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Stel een vraag, meld een probleem met een kansspel — the regulator's report form",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/stel-een-vraag-meld-een-probleem-met-een-kansspel",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The eight-step form the explainer page links to, as distinct from the explainer itself. Dutch-language."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-cruks-operator-duty",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Uitsluitregister Cruks — operator duties towards the Dutch exclusion register",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/voor-zakelijke-aanbieders/uitsluitregister/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page. Operators must hold a tested connection to Cruks to obtain and keep a licence, and must check a player before allowing play."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-responsible-play-faq",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Veelgestelde vragen Beleidsregel verantwoord spelen 2024 — FAQ on the responsible play policy rule",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/veelgestelde-vragen-beleidsregel-verantwoord-spelen-2024",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page. It confirms the net deposit ceiling of 700 euro a month and the duty to block further deposits beyond it. The lower figure widely quoted for players aged 18 to 24 does not appear on this page and is not published here."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-veilig-spelen",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Veilig spelen — playing safely, from the Dutch gambling regulator",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/veilig-spelen/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-voor-spelers",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit",
"title": "Voor spelers — the Dutch regulator's information for players",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/voor-spelers/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-cruks-beleidsregel-onvrijwillige-inschrijving",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "Beleidsregels onvrijwillige inschrijving Cruks | Kansspelautoriteit",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/beleidsregels-onvrijwillige-inschrijving-cruks",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page covering involuntary registration in Cruks, linked to Dutch legal identifier BWBR0045439, in force from 1 October 2021. It states who may request it and the necessity test, but neither the duration of an involuntary registration nor the detailed procedure — do not state either."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-ksa-gokproblemen",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "Gokproblemen en dan? | Kansspelautoriteit",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/veilig-spelen/gokproblemen",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 with and without a trailing slash, re-confirmed independently, while the parent Veilig spelen page loaded — per-path blocking. The Ksa's dedicated gambling-problems content is therefore unread here."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-cruks-gokstop-voor-een-ander",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "Gokstop voor een ander aanvragen | Kansspelautoriteit",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/gokstop-voor-een-ander-aanvragen",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, while other pages on the same host loaded — this is per-path blocking, not a dead page. It is the consumer-facing procedure for requesting a gambling stop for another person, so that procedure is undocumented here."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-cruks-neem-een-gokstop",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "Neem een gokstop met Cruks | Kansspelautoriteit",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/neem-een-gokstop-met-cruks",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language only; no English Ksa page on Cruks was reached. Corrected by the verification pass: the lock-in is the first six months, not the full chosen term — the page says cancellation is possible once the first six months have passed. A Dutch sentence the original research attributed to this page, stating that the gokstop cannot be ended earlier, could not be found on two independent readings and is not used here. The page also documents DigiD versus paper registration and that the exclusion ends automatically at the end of the enrolment."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-cruks-uitsluitregister",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "Uitsluitregister Cruks | Kansspelautoriteit",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/uitsluitregister-cruks",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language page, aimed mainly at providers: they need a Cruks code and check on citizen service number (BSN), name and date of birth. Coverage is 'alle online kansspelaanbieders en speelautomatenhallen in Nederland en voor Holland Casino' — the verification pass corrected the wording from 'speelhallen'. 'Alle' means all Dutch-licensed providers; the page does not extend coverage beyond the Netherlands."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-ksa-loket-kansspel-campaign",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)",
"title": "WK-campagne Loket Kansspel | Kansspelautoriteit (nieuwsbericht)",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/nieuws/2022/november/wk-campagne-loket-kansspel/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-11-22",
"note": "A regulator news item from November 2022, kept only as dated evidence that the Dutch support service formerly called Loket Kansspel is the one now signposted under a new name. Neither Ksa page prints a phone number for the service, and the service's own site could not be reached (TLS chain error), so its hours, funding and contact details are unverified."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-ksa-aanpak-illegale-online-gokspelen",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Aanpak illegale online gokspelen",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/aanpak-misstanden/aanpak-illegale-online-gokspelen",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language original. It references no public list of illegal providers for the Netherlands."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-ksa-minors-research-2026",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Onderzoek deelname legale online kansspelen door minderjarigen afgerond: alleen bij uitzondering mogelijk",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/onderzoek-deelname-legale-online-kansspelen-door-minderjarigen-afgerond-alleen-bij-uitzondering-mogelijk",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-04-13",
"note": "Dutch-language original; there is no official English version of this page."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-ksa-melding",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Stel een vraag of doe een melding over een kansspel",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/stel-een-vraag-doe-een-melding-over-een-kansspel",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Dutch-language original. The page mentions no gambling dispute committee for the Netherlands, but absence from one page is not proof that none exists."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-ksa-veilig-online-gokken",
"authority": "Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Veilig online gokken (safe online gambling)",
"url": "https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/veilig-online-gokken",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "bot-blocked",
"note": "HTTP 403 Forbidden to automated access, independently reproduced. This Dutch consumer page probably carries the age and verification wording, but none of it is verified."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-gibraltar-act-2005-pdf",
"authority": "Laws of Gibraltar",
"title": "Gambling Act 2005 – consolidated text, version 09/02/2021 (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/uploads/legislations/gambling/2005-72/2005-72(09-02-21).pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "Retrieved but returned unparseable PDF binary. The minimum-age section was never read, so no Gibraltar age may be published."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-gibraltar-act-2005",
"authority": "Laws of Gibraltar",
"title": "Gambling Act 2005 – version 09/02/2021",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legislations/gambling-act-2005-1344/version/09-02-2021",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Serves navigation and footer only; no legislative text was returned. The text appears to be delivered as a PDF download."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-gibraltar-act-2025",
"authority": "Laws of Gibraltar",
"title": "Gambling Act 2025 – version 23/03/2026",
"url": "https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legislations/gambling-act-2025-8374/version/23-03-2026",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Serves an HTML shell only — title and version date, no legislative text. The page also carries a banner reading "This version is out of date". Gibraltar's minimum gambling age, the commencement of this Act and the fate of the Gambling Act 2005 are all unestablished; do not state any of them."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-northern-gambling-service",
"authority": "Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust",
"title": "NHS Northern Gambling Service",
"url": "https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/our-services/northern-gambling-service/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-09-01",
"note": "Gives the clinic locations, therapy model, session count and referral email. It does not state an age range and does not explicitly confirm that self-referral is accepted — neither may be asserted."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-gambling-act-2005-s83",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Gambling Act 2005, section 83: Return of stakes to children",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/83",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-14",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 14: High value dealers, casinos, auction platforms and art market participants",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/14",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-21",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 21: Internal controls",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/21",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-28",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 28: Customer due diligence measures",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/28",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-33",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 33: Obligation to apply enhanced customer due diligence",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/33",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-40",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 40: Record-keeping",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/40",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The ten-year figure in regulation 40(4) is a ceiling on transaction records within a business relationship, not a general retention period."
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-regulation-8",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "Money Laundering Regulations 2017, regulation 8: Application",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/8",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Independently confirmed: the list of relevant persons names casinos but not betting, bingo, lotteries or arcades — so the Regulations do not cover most gambling in Great Britain. Version served carried changes known to 16 September 2026."
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-amendment-2026-621",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026 No. 621) – Table of contents",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/621/contents",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Fetched during the independent verification pass rather than the original research, to identify the instrument behind the 30 June 2026 changes — the Commission's own notice does not print an SI number."
},
{
"id": "aml-mlr-2017-contents",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 – Table of contents",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/contents",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "kyc-mlr-2017-regulation-27",
"authority": "legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)",
"title": "The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, regulation 27: Customer due diligence",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/692/regulation/27",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/kyc-verification-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Read the version banner, not just the text. The page is marked "Latest available (Revised)" and flags S.I. 2026/621 threshold changes effective 30 June 2026 as not yet applied, although that date precedes the check date — so the displayed £2,000 may already be superseded. The displayed sterling figure also conflicts with the €2,000 in the Commission's own guidance. The operative provision is regulation 27(5), with qualifying transactions in 27(6)."
},
{
"id": "malta-applications",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Applications — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/applications/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A navigation hub listing six application categories, with no substantive detail."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-mga-compliance-audit-manual",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Compliance Audit Manual (MGA/G/001) (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/app/uploads/Compliance-Audit-Manual.pdf",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Marked "August 18 v1" and no newer version was located, so it may be superseded. The only minimum-RTP figure found anywhere in this research rests on this single 2018 document and is expressed as a monitoring observation, not a stated rule."
},
{
"id": "malta-contact-us",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Contact Us — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/contact-us/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Address, telephone +356 2546 9000 and office hours are confirmed. The email addresses are rewritten by Cloudflare email obfuscation and cannot be read as plain text from the served page. The page asks players not to use the general enquiries address for casino complaints and to use the online complaint form instead."
},
{
"id": "malta-directive-2-index",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Directive 2 of 2018 — Player Protection Directive (index page)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/mga-new-gaming-framework-directives-financial-transition/directive-2-of-2018-player-protection-directive/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "An index page: it links the directive PDF and carries no substantive content of its own."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-mga-directive-3-2018",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Directive 3 of 2018 – Gaming Authorisations and Compliance Directive (PDF, V2 October 2021)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/app/uploads/Directive-3-of-2018-Gaming-Authorisations-and-Compliance-Directive.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "PDF retrieved over HTTPS; text extracted locally. Part IV extracted with mangled article numbers because of the document's column layout — the substance is reliable, the article numbers are not. Whether a version later than V2 exists was not established."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-mga-directive-5-2018",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Directive 5 of 2018 – Alternative Dispute Resolution Directive (PDF, V1 December 2018)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/app/uploads/Directive-5-of-2018-ADR-Directive.pdf",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "PDF retrieved and read in full locally. Malta does not maintain its own approved-ADR list: the directive points at entities listed under Article 20(2) of the EU ADR Directive. Whether its ODR-platform linking obligation survives that platform's closure is unresolved."
},
{
"id": "malta-dynamic-seal-licensee-chooser",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Dynamic Seal Of Authorisation — licensee chooser (company GUID without the details flag)",
"url": "https://authorisation.mga.org.mt/verification.aspx?company=dcaa8168-8b7b-4ab6-9c6e-28d1d2f35766",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Returns a 'Please Select Licensee' chooser, showing that one company GUID can map to several authorisations. This particular URL was not re-tested in the independent verification pass."
},
{
"id": "malta-dynamic-seal-detail-view",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Dynamic Seal Of Authorisation — licensee detail view",
"url": "https://authorisation.mga.org.mt/verification.aspx?lang=EN&company=1f417374-7580-426d-8969-1f404fce41f8&details=1",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Opens only with an internal 32-hex company GUID, which is why it is documented here rather than offered as a lookup. It carries Malta's strongest anti-spoofing instruction: make sure the address of the site you land on starts with https://authorisation.mga.org.mt. The field labels recorded from it are indicative, not exhaustive — an independent re-fetch saw labels the first pass missed and did not see one it listed."
},
{
"id": "malta-dynamic-seal-no-parameter",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Dynamic Seal Of Authorisation — verification page called without a company parameter",
"url": "https://authorisation.mga.org.mt/verification.aspx",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "broken",
"note": "Recorded because the failure is the finding: fetched without a company GUID the page returns 'Error occured - MGA' and 'Value cannot be null. Parameter name: company'. The seal page is the end of a verification journey, not an entry point — a consumer cannot type a domain, company name or licence number into it."
},
{
"id": "malta-enforcement-register",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Enforcement Register — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/enforcement-register/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Publishes cancellations and suspensions of authorisation and preliminary Notices of Cancellation, filterable by year; entries observed run 2013 to 2025, with none for 2026. The page names its statutory basis in full — the Gaming Compliance and Enforcement Regulations — and writes the number as 'S.L. 583.06', while the MGA's own legislation index writes 'S.L. 583.6'."
},
{
"id": "malta-faqs-index",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "FAQs — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The FAQ index. Recorded for completeness only: the self-exclusion cooling-off figures once attributed to it came from a domain search surface rather than from a page opened directly, and remain unverified."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-mga-faqs-index",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Frequently Asked Questions (Malta Gaming Authority)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/support/frequently-asked-questions/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "malta-mga-home",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Home — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No page-level last-updated date; the footer reads 'Copyright © 2026 Malta Gaming Authority All Rights Reserved.' The site also answers on the apex mga.org.mt."
},
{
"id": "malta-licensee-register-landing",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Licensee Register — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/licensee-register/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The landing page a consumer arrives at, with two tabs: 'Licensee Register' and 'URL Checker'. Both tabs are iframes onto separate subdomains, so a plain HTTP fetch returns essentially only the two headings — the tools have to be used in a browser. This page is the only place the URL Checker's real address is exposed to the public."
},
{
"id": "malta-lodge-a-complaint",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Lodge a Complaint — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/player-hub/lodge-a-complaint/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page says 'It is strongly recommended that you actively seek to resolve your dispute directly with the operator' before lodging a complaint — a recommendation, not a precondition. Time-sensitive: at the check date it carried a notice of technical difficulties with the online complaint system, and the follow-up email address was rendered through Cloudflare email obfuscation and could not be read. Complaints must be in English or Maltese."
},
{
"id": "malta-licensee-register-application",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "MGA Licensee Register — search application",
"url": "https://mgalicenseeregister.mga.org.mt/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-18",
"note": "A JavaScript application behind Cloudflare: a plain fetch returns only the shell string 'LicenseeRegisterFrontEnd'. Driven in a browser it offers exactly three fields — Licensee Name, Authorisation Status and Gaming Service — and displayed 'Last Updated: 18/09/2026 13:43', which is a data-refresh time, not a content-review date. The structural trap: Authorisation Status is a filter only and is not shown in the result cards, so a consumer who searches by name sees no licence status until they open the record's dynamic seal."
},
{
"id": "malta-adr-directive-announcement",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "MGA Publishes Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Directive",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/mga-publishes-alternative-dispute-resolution-adr-directive/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-12-03",
"note": "The announcement states 'This Directive is applicable as of 3 December 2018.' The directive number does not appear in the page text at all — it appears only in the linked filename, which also carries a 'v2' suffix, so this 2018 announcement may not describe the current version. The page does not say whether ADR outcomes bind, whether court remains open, or whether ADR is free to players."
},
{
"id": "malta-url-checker",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "MGA URL Checker — verify whether a gaming site is MGA-licensed",
"url": "https://mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-09-18",
"note": "Malta's genuine official domain-verification tool, on its own subdomain; a plain fetch returns only the string 'UrlChecker'. Displayed 'Last Updated: 18/09/2026 13:36'. Two limitations to pass on: it prints 'URL not found in Licensee database.' even when it has matching records to list underneath, so reading only the first line produces false negatives; and it has no query string, so there is no deep link — it must be described as an interactive form."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-mga-national-helpline-1777-announcement",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "National Gambling Helpline (1777) launched by Responsible Gaming Foundation",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/national-gambling-helpline-1777-launched-by-responsible-gaming-foundation/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2015-09-30",
"note": "Eleven years old. Its 24/7 description is a forward-looking statement from 2015 that no source checked has ever confirmed as delivered, and it must not be reported as current fact about the helpline's hours."
},
{
"id": "malta-player-hub",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Player Hub — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/player-hub/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Describes the MGA's Player Support Unit as 'open to receiving complaints from all individuals' and defines what the Authority treats as a complaint. No last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "malta-player-protection-compliance",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Player Protection — Malta Gaming Authority (Licensee Hub)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/compliance/player-protection/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "States that once a player has exhausted the internal process, operators 'must offer the opportunity to refer any dispute to a registered ADR entity', and names the Player Protection Directive (Directive 2 of 2018) as the governing instrument. The licensee's own 'Player Support team' here is a different thing from the MGA's 'Player Support Unit'. This page is also the only place on any fetched MGA page where the figure 18 appears, and it appears inside a marketing-conduct rule rather than as a stated statutory minimum age. No last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "malta-directive-2-pdf",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Player Protection Directive (Directive 2 of 2018) — full text PDF",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/app/uploads/Directive-2-of-2018-Player-Protection-Directive.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Downloaded successfully (about 650 kB) but the text is not machine-extractable: the PDF uses subset-embedded fonts with hex glyph IDs and no usable ToUnicode mapping. No clause of it is cited anywhere here, and its current version could not be confirmed from the document itself. Self-exclusion durations, cooling-off periods, complaint timeframes and any age provision sit inside this document and need a human reader."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-mga-prior-approval",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Prior Approval Requirements (licensee hub)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/compliance/licensees-information-reporting-requirements/prior-approval-requirements/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "malta-recognition-notice-register",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Recognition Notice Register — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/recognition-notice-register/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Searchable by Company Name or Recognition Number; a blank search returns all notices. This is a second, separate list: an entity here operates under a recognised foreign authorisation, not an MGA licence, so checking only the Licensee Register can produce a misleading 'not licensed' conclusion. The register was not driven interactively, so its result fields are undocumented."
},
{
"id": "malta-regulatory-framework",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Regulatory Framework — legislation and regulations index",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/legislations-regulations/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The MGA's own index of the Gaming Act (Cap. 583) and ten subsidiary instruments with their S.L. numbers. The index itself states no licence duration and no minimum age, and the instrument texts could not be read from legislation.mt."
},
{
"id": "malta-remote-gaming-services",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming Services — B2C licences",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/applications/b2c-licences/remote-gaming-services/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Lists the commercial verticals under each game type. Note the scope it states: a B2C licence is required to offer a gaming service from Malta, to a Maltese person or through a Maltese legal entity — an MGA licence does not by itself make an operator lawful where a player lives."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-mandatory-rg-tools",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: Are there any mandatory responsible gambling tools which must be offered to players?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-are-there-any-mandatory-responsible-gambling-tools-which-must-be-offered-to-players/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A precision frequently lost by third parties: only one of deposit or wagering limits is mandatory, with both merely 'strongly encouraged'; loss limits, session limits and time-outs are encouraged, not required. A Time Out runs 'more than 24 hours and not more than 30 days'."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-mga-faq-comply-with-decisions",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: Do Operators have to comply with ADR decisions?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-do-operators-have-to-comply-with-adr-decisions/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The page states no deadline for complying with an ADR decision; a 20-day compliance deadline circulating elsewhere is unverified and must not be written."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-mga-faq-adr-entity-required",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: Do Operators have to engage an ADR entity?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-do-operators-have-to-engage-an-adr-entity/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-self-exclusion-all-brands",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: Is a self-exclusion applied across all brands operated by a Licensee? (MGA FAQ)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-is-a-self-exclusion-applied-across-all-brands-operated-by-a-licensee/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The most important player-protection source for Malta, and the reason Malta must not be compared to jurisdictions with a national scheme: a self-exclusion covers all brands of one licensee, and the Authority only 'encourages Licensees to emphasise with players that they should also exclude any accounts they hold with all other Licensees', pointing additionally to third-party blocking software. There is no national cross-licensee self-exclusion register."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-minor-uses-site",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: What happens if a minor accesses and uses the site?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-what-happens-if-a-minor-accesses-and-uses-the-site/",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Deposits are refunded and excess winnings confiscated once the operator becomes aware. The page cites no regulation and gives no age figure — no fetched MGA page states a statutory minimum gambling age for Malta."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-account-closure-vs-self-exclusion",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: What is the difference between a general account closure and a self-exclusion?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-what-is-the-difference-between-a-general-account-closure-a-self-exclusion/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The URL resolves and was fetched in the independent verification pass, correcting an earlier record that treated it as second-hand. It says an account can only be reopened once the exclusion has expired, or on the player's request at the operator's discretion. It contains no obligation on operators to confirm that a closure request was not made because of gambling problems — an obligation that was wrongly attributed to it."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-onsite-content",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Remote Gaming: What Responsible Gambling/Player Protection content must be displayed on-site?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/remote-gaming-what-responsible-gambling-player-protection-content-must-be-displayed-on-site/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The seven items an MGA-licensed remote operator must display, including 'A dynamic seal or kite mark' — which is why the absence of a seal is itself a signal."
},
{
"id": "malta-safer-gambling",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Safer Gambling — Malta Gaming Authority (Player Hub)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/player-hub/safer-gambling/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines deposit, wagering, loss and time limits, hosts a nine-step self-assessment questionnaire as an anchor on the page, and carries the land-based self-barring description. Two cautions about the support organisations it names: the Responsible Gaming Foundation's own site carries notices of its absorption into the MGA, so it is not plainly arms-length from the regulator, and the MGA's outbound SEDQA link returned HTTP 403 and could not be checked. No last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "malta-self-barring",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Self-Barring — Malta Gaming Authority (Player Hub)",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/player-hub/self-barring/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Online-oriented: it describes self-exclusion as blocking access to 'the gaming website which the player has excluded with', and publishes the Self-Barring Request Application Form (MGA-F-006) and the Self-Barring Auto-Renew Removal Form (MGA-F-015). The land-based self-barring sentence is on the Safer Gambling page, not this one. No last-updated date, and the land-based renewal mechanics are not stated anywhere."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-mga-impersonation-notice",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "The MGA publishes notice on websites impersonating licensed operators",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/the-mga-publishes-notice-on-websites-impersonating-licensed-operators/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-07-16",
"note": "Confirms impersonation of licensees and false references to MGA licences. It does not confirm copying of a regulator's seal graphic; do not conflate the two."
},
{
"id": "malta-unauthorised-urls",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Unauthorised URLs — Malta Gaming Authority",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/player-hub/unauthorised-urls/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A static published list of domains the MGA has actively noticed, not a search tool and not a comprehensive blacklist — absence from it proves nothing. The page carries no last-updated date; the most recent notice date observed on it was 15/09/2026."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-game-types",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "What are the different types of games that are licensable by the Authority?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/what-are-the-different-types-of-games-that-are-licensable-by-the-authority/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The definitional wording for game types 1 to 4, complementary to the vertical listing on the Remote Gaming Services page."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-licence-fee",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "What is the licence fee and when is it due?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/what-is-the-licence-fee-and-when-is-it-due/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Fees are annual and payable in advance under the Gaming Licence Fee Regulations (S.L. 583.03). This is distinct from the licence's overall term, which the page does not state; no amounts are given."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-mga-faq-licensee-process",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "What is the process that a licensee should make readily available to those players who wish to submit a complaint?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/what-is-the-process-that-a-licensee-should-make-readily-available-to-those-players-who-wish-to-submit-a-complaint/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-complaint-process",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "What is the process to submit a player complaint to the Authority or an ADR entity?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/what-is-the-process-to-submit-a-player-complaint-to-the-authority-or-an-adr-entity/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Presents the Authority's Player Support Unit and an ADR entity as alternative routes, and says the player 'may' refer the matter onward. It states no timeframes, does not say whether an ADR outcome binds, and does not say whether court remains open."
},
{
"id": "malta-faq-licence-types",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "What types of licences are available?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/what-types-of-licences-are-available/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/malta-gaming-authority/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Describes the Gaming Service Licence (B2C) and the Critical Gaming Supply Licence (B2B). It states no licence duration — the widely repeated ten-year figure was not found on any MGA page that was fetched, and is not published here."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-mga-approved-audit-providers",
"authority": "Malta Gaming Authority",
"title": "Which are the approved audit service providers who can be engaged by licensees?",
"url": "https://www.mga.org.mt/faqs/which-are-the-approved-system-and-compliance-auditors-who-can-be-engaged-by-licensees/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "This lists audit service providers, a different function from RNG and game testing. No public MGA list of recognised RNG or game test houses was located, so none may be named."
},
{
"id": "aml-nca-suspicious-activity-reports",
"authority": "National Crime Agency",
"title": "Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)",
"url": "https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/money-laundering-and-illicit-finance/suspicious-activity-reports",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms the NCA has sole national responsibility for receiving, analysing and disseminating SARs. A consumer cannot find out whether they were the subject of one."
},
{
"id": "aml-nca-ukfiu-submitting-a-sar",
"authority": "National Crime Agency",
"title": "UKFIU guidance – Chapter 2: Submitting a SAR (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/775-ukfiu-chapter-2-submitting-a-sar/file",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/aml-gambling/",
"/player-protection/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "The PDF downloaded (about 452 KB) but no text could be extracted in the research environment, so nothing in it is verified. The document title and version were taken from a search listing and were not confirmed from the file itself."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-nhs-gambling-addiction",
"authority": "NHS",
"title": "Help for problems with gambling — NHS",
"url": "https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/addiction-support/gambling-addiction/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2023-12-08",
"note": "Stale: the page shows 'Last reviewed: 8 December 2023' with the next review due 8 December 2026, so it predates the statutory-levy transition and must not be relied on for who funds treatment today. It names the regional NHS services but states no age range. Its GamStop wording is three discrete options — 6 months, 1 year or 5 years — not a range; the verification pass flagged the earlier '6 months to 5 years' rendering as a misquotation."
},
{
"id": "ontario-olg-my-playbreak",
"authority": "Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation",
"title": "My PlayBreak — OLG's self-exclusion tool",
"url": "https://www.olg.ca/en/my-play-break.html",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/ontario-online-gambling-regulation/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "OLG is a Crown agency and operator, not the regulator, so cite this as the scheme's own authority rather than as a regulatory source. It is the only verified source for the statement that BetGuard does not cover land-based casinos, and it publishes two enrolment numbers: 1-800-387-0098 for casinos and 1-855-978-7529 for OLG.ca. Its term lists are longer than AGCO's summary of them. No last-updated date; only a 2026 copyright line."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-gambling-act",
"authority": "Overheid.nl",
"title": "Wet op de kansspelen — the consolidated Dutch Gambling Act",
"url": "https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0002469/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-02-12",
"note": "The date shown is the start of the consolidated version's validity period, which is what this site displays instead of a last-updated stamp. The age limit of 18 is solid and corroborated by the regulator's own pages, but the article that sets it was not pinned down in this read — the passage captured cross-refers to another article — so no article number should be cited from here."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-nl-besluit-kansspelen-op-afstand",
"authority": "Overheid.nl (Dutch government legal database)",
"title": "Besluit kansspelen op afstand — consolidated text of 15 July 2022 (article 4.14 on limits)",
"url": "https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0044773/2022-07-15",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2022-07-15",
"note": "The Dutch decree itself, and the source of the rule that a Dutch limit increase is delayed while a decrease is immediate. The URL pins one consolidated version: check whether a later consolidation has changed article 4.14 before republishing anything from it."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-responsible-gaming-foundation",
"authority": "Responsible Gaming Foundation",
"title": "Responsible Gaming Foundation Malta",
"url": "https://www.rgf.org.mt/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Organisation in transition. The site still publishes the national helpline number and is still the route the MGA names, but it states that certain services will be unavailable because of the change, is not accepting donations, marks funding calls closed pending absorption into the MGA, and shows nothing newer than 2024. Operating hours are published nowhere on the site — do not claim the line is 24/7."
},
{
"id": "netherlands-rijksoverheid-2024-measures",
"authority": "Rijksoverheid",
"title": "Maatregelen voor bewuster speelgedrag en betere bescherming spelers van kansspelen gaan 1 oktober 2024 in",
"url": "https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/06/20/maatregelen-voor-bewuster-speelgedrag-en-betere-bescherming-spelers-van-kansspelen-gaan-1-oktober-2024-in",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/netherlands-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-06-20",
"note": "Dutch-language original of the 2024 player-protection announcement."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-rijksoverheid-koerswijziging-2025",
"authority": "Rijksoverheid (Government of the Netherlands)",
"title": "Fundamentele koerswijziging kansspelbeleid",
"url": "https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/02/14/fundamentele-koerswijziging-kansspelbeleid",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-02-14",
"note": "Dutch-language original. The raising of the minimum age to 21 is framed on the page as an intention scoped to the riskiest gambling products, with a bill only expected to be drafted from late 2025. Enactment status could not be re-checked and must not be asserted."
},
{
"id": "age-verification-rijksoverheid-maatregelen-2024",
"authority": "Rijksoverheid (Government of the Netherlands)",
"title": "Maatregelen ingegaan voor betere bescherming spelers van online kansspelen",
"url": "https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/10/01/maatregelen-ingegaan-voor-betere-bescherming-spelers-van-online-kansspelen",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-10-01",
"note": "Dutch-language original. The figures on this page are deposit limits by age band, not minimum ages — do not present them as age limits."
},
{
"id": "sweden-apply-licence",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Apply for a licence or permit in Sweden",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/licence-and-permit/Apply-licens-or-permit/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The mixed-case path is the regulator's own spelling of the URL."
},
{
"id": "sweden-contact",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Contact us — Swedish Gambling Authority",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/contact-us/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Thin page. The substantive reporting and complaint routes sit on the Swedish-language pages."
},
{
"id": "sweden-gambling-act-translation",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Gambling Act (2018:1138) — unofficial English translation, amended through SFS 2026:1077 (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/globalassets/dokument/engelska/gambling-act-sfs-2018_1138-uppdat-sfs-2026_1077.pdf",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Unofficial translation: the regulator states the Swedish original prevails where the versions differ. The filename encodes the amending statute, so this URL breaks when the translation is reissued — the previous dated filename already returns 404."
},
{
"id": "sweden-where-to-complain",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Har du problem med en spelaktör? — where to report a problem with a gambling operator",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/spelare/vart-ska-jag-anmala/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-11-15",
"note": "Swedish-language only; no English equivalent was found. The regulator states plainly that it cannot pursue a dispute between a player and a licensee, does not investigate individual matters, and does not approve operator terms."
},
{
"id": "sweden-illegal-gambling-en",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Illegal Gambling — how the Swedish regulator acts against unlicensed operators",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/illegal-gambling/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-05-12",
"note": "The regulator publishes no blacklist or warning list of unlicensed operators. Bans appear only in the supervisory decisions archive, and the authority reports crimes to police rather than investigating them itself."
},
{
"id": "sweden-licence-and-permit",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Licence and permit — how gambling licensing works in Sweden",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/licence-and-permit/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "sweden-licence-register-en",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Licence and permit directory — English path of the Swedish licence register",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/licence-and-permit/licence-and-permit-directory/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Same register as the Swedish path and equally client-rendered. Filter labels, licence-type names and the Excel export buttons stay in Swedish even on this English page."
},
{
"id": "sweden-licence-register",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Licensregister — the Swedish register of licence and permit holders",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/licens-o-tillstand/licensregister/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Register data is drawn client-side: a plain HTTP fetch returns an empty shell, and it had to be read in a real browser. The page publishes no last-updated stamp. The free-text search parameter works on a cold navigation, but the licence-type filter parameter is silently ignored and the page returns the full unfiltered register."
},
{
"id": "sweden-licence-register-domain-lookup",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Licensurl — per-domain detail view of the Swedish licence register",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/licens-o-tillstand/licensregister/licensurl/",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "This is where licence type and validity dates actually surface, but it fails unsafely: a domain that is in the register returns a detail view, while a domain that is not returns an HTTP 500 error page rather than a clean negative. Use the register's own search for a reliable no-match answer. Validity is usually a closed date range, but an entry may show an open-ended range with no end date."
},
{
"id": "sweden-spelpaus-addiction",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Om spelberoende — Spelpaus.se information on gambling addiction",
"url": "https://www.spelpaus.se/om-spelberoende",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Swedish-language page."
},
{
"id": "sweden-responsible-gambling",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Responsible Gambling and duty of care — Spelinspektionen (English)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/eng-spelansvar-omsorgsplikt/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/deposit-limits/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-05-12",
"note": "States an 18 minimum for gambling and a 20 minimum for entry to Casino Cosmopol. The figure 20 was not found in the Gambling Act text, so its legal basis is unestablished and must not be attributed to that Act."
},
{
"id": "sweden-rules-and-regulation",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Rules and Regulation — index of Swedish gambling rules in English",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "sweden-spelpaus-faq",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Spelpaus.se — FAQ about the national self-exclusion",
"url": "https://www.spelpaus.se/en/faq/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Sets out what the exclusion does not cover — offline lottery tickets and scratch cards, traditional bingo halls, restaurant casino games, ships in international waters and small local horse pool betting — because those forms do not require registration."
},
{
"id": "sweden-spelpaus-home",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Spelpaus.se — Sweden's national self-exclusion register",
"url": "https://www.spelpaus.se/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Swedish-language entry point, branded as a service from Spelinspektionen. The statute behind it obliges the authority to keep the register and bars licensees from letting play begin before checking it."
},
{
"id": "sweden-spelpaus-how-it-works",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Spelpaus.se — This is how it works",
"url": "https://www.spelpaus.se/en/how-it-works/",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Durations are 10 days, 1, 3 or 6 months, or until further notice (at least 12 months). A self-exclusion cannot be cancelled or ended early; it may be replaced with a longer one but never shortened, and a fixed-term exclusion ends automatically on its end date."
},
{
"id": "sweden-problem-gambling",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Spelproblem — hjälp vid spelberoende (Spelinspektionen)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/spelare/spelberoende/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-11-15",
"note": "Swedish-language only. It refers readers to Stödlinjen and Spelpaus, and to the peer-support organisations spelberoende.se and spelberoendegruppen.com, which were not fetched and are therefore not linked here."
},
{
"id": "sweden-supervisory-decisions",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Supervisory decisions — archive of Swedish gambling enforcement decisions",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/supervision-and-decisions/supervisory-decisions/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Read in a browser; a plain fetch returns a shell. Entries run from 2019 to 2026, so it is a historical archive and not a current-status view. Filter values stay in Swedish on the English page. Only this English path works — the equivalent Swedish path returns 404 after the June 2025 site relaunch."
},
{
"id": "sweden-regulator-english",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Swedish Gambling Authority — English section",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The English section is a partial mirror. Key consumer pages — where to complain, illegal gambling, gambling problems — exist only in Swedish."
},
{
"id": "sweden-tip-off",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Tipsa oss — report a gambling operator to the Swedish Gambling Authority",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/om-oss/kontakta-oss/tipsa-oss/",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2024-09-30",
"note": "Swedish-language only. It accepts tips about operators, including Spelpaus issues, but states the authority cannot communicate with a company on a player's behalf or resolve a dispute. Its sidebar is where the regulator states the ARN claim threshold of 750 kronor. A street address once published with these contact details could not be confirmed on the page and is not reproduced."
},
{
"id": "sweden-translated-laws",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Translated laws — applicable laws and regulations in English",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/applicable-laws-and-regulations/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-06-10",
"note": "Carries the regulator's own disclaimer that its English translations are unofficial and the Swedish version prevails."
},
{
"id": "sweden-illegal-gambling-definition",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Vad är olaglig spelverksamhet — what counts as illegal gambling in Sweden",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/lagar-regler/olagligt-spel/vad-ar-olaglig-spelverksamhet/",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2025-07-02",
"note": "Swedish-language page; no English equivalent was found. Also states that promoting unlicensed gambling through marketing, affiliate links or apps is itself illegal."
},
{
"id": "sweden-spelpaus-english",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen",
"title": "Welcome to Spelpaus.se — English entry point for Swedish self-exclusion",
"url": "https://www.spelpaus.se/en",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Registration is confirmed with Swedish e-identification (Mobilt BankID, BankID, Freja eID+ or a foreign eID) and the FAQ states a Swedish personal identity number is needed. An alternative route for people without e-identification is signposted but was not opened."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-sga-duty-of-care-guidance-pdf",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen (Swedish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Guidance: duty of care — Spelinspektionen (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/globalassets/dokument/engelska/guidance-duty-of-care.pdf",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Downloaded (1.5 MB) but not parsed — no text was read and nothing here rests on its contents. It is the document a human should open to establish the Swedish duty-of-care detail this research could not verify."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-se-guidelines-sifs-2022-3",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen (Swedish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Guidelines for SIFS 2022:3 and for chapters 1 and 4 of LIFS 2018:4, version 1.1 (PDF, May 2025)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/globalassets/dokument/engelska/guidelines-for-sifs-2022_3-and-for-chapters-1-and-4-of-lifs-2018_4-maj-2025.pdf",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "PDF retrieved over HTTPS; text extracted locally. An unofficial English translation — the Swedish version prevails. It contains an internal error, referring to both "ISO/IEC 27001:2022" and a non-existent "ISO/IEC 27001:2014"; do not reproduce the 2014 reference. Its Appendix 1 mapping table extracted with column misalignment."
},
{
"id": "player-protection-tools-sga-regulations-english",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen (Swedish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "SGA regulations in English — Spelinspektionen",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/sga-regulations-english/",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/deposit-limits/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/time-outs-reality-checks/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The English-language regulations index. Note what it could not deliver here: the Swedish Gambling Act and Ordinance translations linked from the regulator's document store both returned HTTP 404, so Sweden's statutory deposit-limit structure and any waiting period before an increase remain unverified and must not be stated."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-se-sifs-2022-3",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen (Swedish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "SIFS 2022:3 (Swedish Gambling Authority regulations)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/en/rules-and-regulation/the-sgas-regulations/sifs-20223/",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The regulation text itself was never fetched — the page provided no direct link to it — and the page states no entry-into-force date."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-sga-situation-report-unlicensed-market",
"authority": "Spelinspektionen (Swedish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "The SGA's situation report — online gambling outside the licensed market (PDF)",
"url": "https://www.spelinspektionen.se/globalassets/dokument/engelska/the-sgas-situation-report--online-gambling-outside-the-licensed-market.pdf",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Downloaded as a 733 KB binary PDF but never parsed — no text was read and no claim on this site rests on its contents. Listed because it is the likeliest official Swedish source on people gambling outside the licensed market despite an exclusion; a human must open it before anything is quoted from it."
},
{
"id": "denmark-about-us",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "About us — the Danish Gambling Authority",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/about-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Gives the authority's address and company registration number. It does not state which ministry the authority sits under, and it was not re-fetched in the verification pass."
},
{
"id": "denmark-betting",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Betting — a game which requires a Danish licence",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/games-which-require-a-licence/betting",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines the betting licence category. It states neither a licence duration nor an age limit, and shows no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "denmark-businesses-index",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Businesses and associations — the Danish regulator's section for licence holders",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "denmark-fees",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Fees on betting and online casino",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/fees/fees-on-betting-and-online-casino",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Application, renewal and tiered annual fees. The table carries both a 2026 and a 2025 column, so any figure taken from it must name its year. The page does not state how long a licence runs, which is why no licence duration is published for Denmark."
},
{
"id": "denmark-gaming-or-gambling",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Gaming or gambling? — lootboxes, skin betting and young players",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/gaming-or-gambling",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The authority describes a special obligation to protect children and young people, and names lootboxes and skin betting as its two concerns. Its dedicated sub-page was not fetched. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-get-help",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Get help for problem gambling",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/get-help-for-problem-gambling",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A treatment-centres page is linked from here but was not fetched, so it is not published as a source."
},
{
"id": "denmark-report-illegal",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Have you discovered illegal gambling or illegal advertising?",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/illegal-gambling-and-advertising/have-you-discovered-illegal-gambling-or-illegal-advertising",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Sets out what a report should contain. A report feeds ongoing supervision, and the authority says you will generally not be told whether it acts. The page does not say whether a report may be anonymous. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-helpful-advice",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Helpful advice for people who gamble",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/helpful-advice-for-people-who-gamble",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Consumer guidance only. It mentions operators keeping a 90-day gambling history and enforcing deposit limits, but that operator duty was not confirmed on any licence-requirements page and should not be stated as a rule. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-complaints",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "If you wish to file a complaint about a gambling operator",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/if-you-wish-to-file-a-complaint",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The authority states it is not an appeals body and cannot resolve disputes between a player and an operator. The route runs operator first, then the Mediation Team for Consumer Complaints as a mandatory step, then the Consumer Complaints Board, then the courts. Only the English names of those bodies are confirmed; their Danish names were not, and there is no gambling-specific appeals board. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-illegal-gambling-business",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Illegal gambling — the definition for businesses",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/illegal-gambling",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A game breaches the Danish Gambling Act if it is offered without a licence while the operator targets the Danish market. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-illegal-gambling-players",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Illegal gambling and advertising — what makes a gambling site illegal in Denmark",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/illegal-gambling-and-advertising",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Lists the indicators that a site targets the Danish market, and states that operators without a Danish licence may not advertise and that streamers may not refer viewers to them. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-licensed-operators",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Licensed gambling operators — the Danish register of licence holders",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/licensed-gambling-operators",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-20",
"note": "The page carries an explicit last-updated stamp, but the list body is drawn by JavaScript and does not appear in a plain fetch — a reader using a text browser or a strict content blocker may see an empty list and wrongly conclude an operator is absent. The list excludes slot-machine licence holders and licensed game suppliers, which are published separately. There is no working search or filter link: three query-string patterns were tested and all failed, and the search box on the page is the site-wide site search. Individual entries do show the domains covered by a licence, but the entry addresses are not uniformly reliable — one returned an HTTP 500 error."
},
{
"id": "denmark-stopspillet-official",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "National Helpline for Gambling Problems: StopSpillet",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/national-helpline-for-gambling-problems-stopspillet",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The English description of the authority's own free and confidential helpline, which serves players, relatives and professionals. It lists live chat on Monday to Thursday only, while the helpline's own site also shows a Friday chat window; both were observed independently and the conflict is unresolved, so both should be shown. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-online-casino",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Online casino — a game which requires a Danish licence",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/games-which-require-a-licence/online-casino",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Defines the online casino licence category. It states no licence duration and shows no last-updated date."
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-privacy",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Privacy policy on ROFUS — what the self-exclusion register records and who sees it",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/about-us/policies/privacy-policy-on-rofus",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Names the three executive orders that anchor the operator duty to check the register; those orders themselves were not fetched. It also states that the authority never discloses a registration to individuals or private businesses outside the operator checks it describes. It sets out no age or residence eligibility rule."
},
{
"id": "denmark-public-and-players",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Public and players — the Danish regulator's consumer section",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The authoritative index of the English consumer-facing pages."
},
{
"id": "denmark-publications",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Publications — guidance published by the Danish Gambling Authority",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/publications",
"topic": "legislation",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The index of published guidance. The operator guidelines for betting and online casino (version 9.0, 2025) could not be located: both upload paths tried returned 404, so the duties they contain on exclusion checks, deposit limits and label placement were not read."
},
{
"id": "denmark-licence-requirements",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Requirement you must meet when you hold a licence",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/requirement-you-must-meet-when-you-hold-a-licence",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "denmark-responsible-gambling-requirements",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Responsible gambling — requirements on Danish licence holders",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/requirement-you-must-meet-when-you-hold-a-licence/responsible-gambling",
"topic": "age",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The confirmed source for the rule that a player must be made aware of the 18-year age limit before taking part. Read the referral duty as the page words it: most licence holders must refer players to the helpline and inform them about the self-exclusion register — not all of them. The page also says the label must be visible to the player, with placement set by executive order rather than by the website."
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-english",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "ROFUS — the Danish register of voluntarily excluded players, English section",
"url": "https://www.rofus.nu/en-us",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-faq",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "ROFUS FAQ — questions about registering for Danish self-exclusion",
"url": "https://www.rofus.nu/en-us/faq",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms that registration needs the national eID, that a form is the route for anyone without one, that only the person themselves can register, how accounts are handled on permanent and temporary exclusions, and that operators consult the register before sending marketing. It does not say that registering enrols anyone in a separate marketing-block scheme, so that claim is not published."
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-front",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "ROFUS front page",
"url": "https://www.rofus.nu/?l=en",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Serves Danish content despite the language parameter in the address; use the /en-us section for English."
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-application",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "ROFUS registration application — the self-exclusion sign-up service",
"url": "https://rofusweb.spillemyndigheden.dk/public/rofus/?language=en",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "js-only",
"note": "Only the page footer rendered: the login screen, the eID button and the exclusion-period choices are drawn client-side and could not be observed, so this site does not describe the interface. On that footer the displayed phone number and the underlying telephone link do not match — a regulator-side inconsistency, so trust the displayed number."
},
{
"id": "denmark-sanctions",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Sanctions and reporting of illegal supply of gambling",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/illegal-gambling/sanctions-and-reporting-of-illegal-supply-of-gambling",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms the escalation — an order to cease, then district court action to have the site blocked and a police report. It does not describe DNS blocking, name any telecommunications provider role, or give any count of blocked sites: the widely repeated figures come from news pages that now return 404, and the current news listing is JavaScript-only, so no count is published here. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-authority-home",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Spillemyndigheden — the Danish Gambling Authority, English site",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The live English tree sits under the /en-us/ prefix. The older /en/ paths are still prominent in search results but mostly return 404, so any Danish gambling URL copied from a secondary source is likely to be broken."
},
{
"id": "denmark-statistics",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Statistics — Danish gambling market and self-exclusion figures",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/statistics",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-01",
"note": "The date shown is the as-of date of the self-exclusion figure the page states (73,500 persons registered), not a page update stamp. The figures behind it sit in a dashboard that is a JavaScript application and was not opened, and the downloadable spreadsheets were not fetched."
},
{
"id": "denmark-stopspillet",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "StopSpillet — the Danish national gambling helpline",
"url": "https://www.stopspillet.dk/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Danish-language only; the English description of the service sits on the regulator's own site. It offers phone and chat and a nine-question self-assessment. Its chat hours include a Friday window that the regulator's English page does not list. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-responsible-gambling-guidance-pdf",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "The Danish Gambling Authority's guidance on responsible gambling — betting and online casino (PDF)",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/media/hpqjw4ne/the-danish-gambling-authoritys-guidance-on-responsible-gambling-betting-and-online-casino.pdf",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The file downloads, but its text could not be extracted during research, so nothing in it has been read or is stated anywhere on this site. It is the primary source for the exclusion-period duties and the label obligations, and it needs to be opened by hand."
},
{
"id": "denmark-label",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "The Danish Gambling Authority's label — what the licence label means for players",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/the-danish-gambling-authority-s-label",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The authority says the label shows that it licenses and supervises the operator, and that licence holders are legally required to display it. Nothing on the page says the label is clickable or verifies itself, and the verification route the authority gives is its licensed-operators list — so the label on a site is a claim, not a check. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-labelling-scheme",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "The Danish Gambling Authority's labelling scheme",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/requirement-you-must-meet-when-you-hold-a-licence/the-danish-gambling-authoritys-labelling-scheme",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Anyone holding a Danish licence must use the label, the design may not be altered, and using the scheme in other contexts needs written approval. The download packages linked from the page were not fetched, so those asset addresses are not published here. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-rofus-what-is",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "What is ROFUS? — scope, exclusion periods and how registration ends",
"url": "https://www.rofus.nu/en-us/what-is-rofus",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The register covers online gambling from Danish-licensed operators plus land-based casinos and land-based betting in Denmark. The choices are a 24-hour break, one, three or six months, or permanent. A registration is binding and cannot be cancelled; a permanent exclusion can only be requested for deletion no earlier than a year after registration, through two logins seven to thirty days apart. Quote this page or the FAQ, but not the two merged together — they word the binding rule differently. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "denmark-documentation",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden",
"title": "Why do gambling operators ask for documentation?",
"url": "https://spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/why-do-gambling-operators-ask-for-documentation",
"topic": "kyc-aml",
"pages": [
"/age-verification-gambling/",
"/denmark-gambling-regulation/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The consumer-facing explanation of identity verification in Denmark, including temporary accounts and the limits on them before verification is complete. No last-updated date is shown."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-dk-certification-programme",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Certification programme (game supplier document index)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/businesses-and-associations/game-supplier/certification-programme",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "A document index rather than a register. Use it to obtain the current version of a Danish requirements document and check the version number on page 1."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-en-us",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Danish Gambling Authority (English section)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "The English section lives under /en-us. Search-engine results pointing at /en/... paths are stale and return 404."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-dk-game-supplier",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Game supplier (businesses and associations)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en/game-supplier",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Thin page; its value was the onward link to the certification programme index."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-dk-scp-00-00-general",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "General requirements – SCP.00.00.EN.3.0 (PDF, 20 February 2025)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/media/tqyc0v3z/scp0000en_30-general-requirements.pdf",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "uncertain",
"note": "PDF retrieved, but the local text extraction was recorded as only partially reliable for this document."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-spillemyndigheden-free-treatment",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Gratis behandling af spilafhængighed (ludomani)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/gratis-behandling-af-spilafhængighed-ludomani",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Danish-language page. The regulator funds and routes to treatment providers but does not run them. Despite the page title, it does not itself say who pays, and it states no age or eligibility rules — do not fill those gaps."
},
{
"id": "complaints-adr-spillemyndigheden-guide-to-complaints",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Guide to complaints (appeals against decisions of the Danish Gambling Authority)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en/guide-complaints",
"topic": "complaints",
"pages": [
"/gambling-complaints/",
"/gambling-site-not-paying/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "This covers appeals against the Authority's own decisions, not disputes between a player and an operator. Do not present it as a player-complaint route."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-report-illegal",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Have you discovered illegal gambling or illegal advertising?",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/illegal-gambling-and-advertising/have-you-discovered-illegal-gambling-or-illegal-advertising",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Submission is via a link to the Authority's contact page, which neither analyst fetched, so that contact URL is not published here. The page also states a reporter will generally not be informed of the outcome."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-spillemyndigheden-helpline-handover",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Hjælpelinje til spilafhængige skifter hænder (nyhed)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/nyheder/hjaelpelinje-til-spilafhaengige-skifter-haender",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2018-12-21",
"note": "Danish-language news item from December 2018, useful only to explain why older material still names the previous helpline operator. Eight years old at the date checked."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-illegal-gambling",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Illegal gambling and advertising",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/illegal-gambling-and-advertising",
"topic": "enforcement",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "No last-updated date. Danish DNS-blocking mechanics, the blocked-page notice text and all blocking statistics are unverified — the pages carrying them return 404."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-public-and-players",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Public and players (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable"
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-dk-scp-07-03-online-casino",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Requirements for games: Online casino – SCP.07.03.EN.1.1 (PDF, March 2026)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/media/x1mlhl3k/scp0703en11-requirements-for-games-online-casino.pdf",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "PDF retrieved over HTTPS; text extracted locally. Only some requirements are marked [TEST]; the rest are inspection requirements, so "certified" can rest partly on inspection rather than laboratory testing."
},
{
"id": "rng-testing-dk-scp-01-00-rng",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Requirements for random number generators – SCP.01.00.EN.1.1 (PDF, March 2026)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/media/crnphvcz/scp0100en11-requirements-for-rng.pdf",
"topic": "fairness",
"pages": [
"/fairness-rng-testing/",
"/gambling-licenses/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "PDF retrieved over HTTPS; its text was extracted locally rather than by the fetch tool. Only the Danish version of the certification programme is legally binding — the English is guidance."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-home",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority) – home",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Danish-language home page."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-licensed-providers",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "Spiludbydere med tilladelse (gambling operators holding a licence)",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/spiludbydere-med-tilladelse",
"topic": "register",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-08-20",
"note": "Danish-language list. A search function is present at the top of the page; no filter controls were observed and the result fields did not render for an automated fetch. The list excludes gaming-machine licence holders and game suppliers, which have separate lists."
},
{
"id": "scam-detection-spillemyndigheden-label",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "The Danish Gambling Authority's label",
"url": "https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en-us/public-and-players/the-danish-gambling-authority-s-label",
"topic": "licensing",
"pages": [
"/fake-gambling-license/",
"/gambling-scam-checklist/",
"/how-to-report-gambling-site/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Confirms the label is a legal requirement but is genuinely silent on the label's own text, on whether it links anywhere, and on misuse. No date shown. A mandatory label is not the same as a verifiable seal."
},
{
"id": "self-exclusion-rofus-what-is-rofus",
"authority": "Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority)",
"title": "What is ROFUS? — the register of voluntarily excluded players",
"url": "https://rofus.nu/en-us/what-is-rofus",
"topic": "self-exclusion",
"pages": [
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/self-exclusion/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Link this path: https://www.rofus.nu/en/ returned HTTP 500 on two independent attempts. Confirmed here: the durations, the coverage boundary (operators licensed by the Danish Gambling Authority, plus Danish land-based casinos and betting), MitID or form 9-01 registration, the automatic 'No thanks to gambling ads' marketing block, and the two-step deletion of a permanent exclusion. Write MitID, not NemID. An unfetched Spillemyndigheden technical PDF appeared in search snippets to give a different minimum for temporary exclusion; that conflict is unresolved and must not be reconciled in print."
},
{
"id": "sweden-stodlinjen",
"authority": "Stödlinjen",
"title": "Stödlinjen — Sweden's national support line for gambling problems",
"url": "https://www.stodlinjen.se/",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/gambling-regulators/",
"/license-checker/",
"/responsible-gambling/",
"/sweden-gambling-regulation/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"note": "Run by the Stockholm regional health service with support from the Public Health Agency of Sweden — not by the gambling regulator. Free and anonymous, for players and relatives, in Swedish, English and Arabic plus interpreter languages. Opening hours were not verified."
},
{
"id": "gambling-help-gov-wales-helpline-announcement",
"authority": "Welsh Government",
"title": "Gambling helpline and specialist treatment service to be launched in Wales",
"url": "https://www.gov.wales/gambling-helpline-and-specialist-treatment-service-be-launched-wales",
"topic": "support",
"pages": [
"/gambling-help/",
"/responsible-gambling/"
],
"checked": "2026-09-18",
"status": "reachable",
"sourceUpdated": "2026-02-25",
"note": "Published 25 February 2026. Announces the service and its funding but prints no helpline number and does not confirm 24/7 operation — those come from the health board's own page."
}
]
}