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No. 114 of 2022

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022

Public bill · Government · Presented

Creates a new gambling regulator for Ireland to license and police betting, gaming, lotteries and gambling-related products and services, including online and in-person gambling. It replaces older gambling laws with a single modern system, sets rules on advertising, promotions, sponsorship, payment methods and operating standards, and gives the regulator powers to inspect, fine, suspend or revoke licences. It also bans children from gambling or working in the industry, sets up a self-exclusion register so people can block themselves from gambling, and creates a fund to support research, education and treatment for problem gambling.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann or, in the English language, the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland for the purposes of licensing and regulating betting, gaming, certain lotteries and the sale or supply of products or services related to gambling; to provide for the funding of that Authority by means of imposition of a charge on licensees; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons who hold gambling licences in the State and a National Gambling Exclusion Register; to provide for the establishment of a Social Impact Fund to, among other matters, finance research into, raise awareness of, and eliminate or reduce, compulsive and excessive gambling; to provide for contributions to the Fund by certain licensees; to provide for the imposition of obligations on those licensees including obligations relating to advertising, promotion and sponsorship for the purposes of safeguarding persons participating in gambling; to provide for the prohibition of children participating in gambling or being employed in the gambling industry; to provide, for the purposes of ensuring conditions attached to gambling licences and obligations imposed on licensees are complied with, for compliance and enforcement measures; and for those and other purposes to repeal the Totalisator Act 1929, the Betting Act 1931, the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956, to revoke certain statutory instruments and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 4 November 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Cream List
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Justice
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil

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