Glossary

Not a term in the rules. Press coverage uses it for both the financial vulnerability check, which is in force, and the financial risk assessment, which is not.

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The date from which a measure binds an operator. It is different from the announcement or decision date.

Used in: Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables

The proposal stage, which considered possible limits; it is not the rule.

Used in: UK online casino regulation changes: how to read the dates and scope

The stage that identified the selected approach; implementation may still require another instrument or later guidance.

Used in: UK online casino regulation changes: how to read the dates and scope

The document in which a department or the Commission states its decision after a consultation. It is the announcement, not the date a rule binds.

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A later change to the record, such as the bonus announcement’s update note moving its implementation date; the original report was not fabricated, the record changed.

Used in: UK online casino regulation changes: how to read the dates and scope

A cap a customer sets on what an account can take in a period; the announcement names support to set one as a possible action. Play in Balance covers the control itself.

Used in: Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when

A published record of action taken against one named licensee, which binds that licensee rather than stating a general rule.

Used in: Jurisdiction before the headline: what changes, for whom, and from when

The separate staged programme announced on 7 July 2026, based on limited credit-reference information; its stage-one start is not yet confirmed in the sources reviewed.

Used in: Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables

The public-record check required by social responsibility code 3.4.4 at the £150 rolling 30-day trigger; the measure already in force.

Used in: Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables

One complete play of a game. It is the unit the slot stake limit uses, which is why that limit is a per-spin ceiling and not a session or daily cap.

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A summary revenue measure based on stakes and other relevant receipts less prizes or winnings. It should not replace the exact statutory levy calculation or its customer scope.

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When the requirement applies under its stated scope. It does not, by itself, prove that every operator complied on that date.

Used in: UK online casino regulation changes: how to read the dates and scope

Used in this register only where the effective date stated by the instrument, condition or standard has already passed.

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The territory in which a rule applies, together with the body that has power to make and enforce it.

Used in: Jurisdiction before the headline: what changes, for whom, and from when

Know-your-customer identity checks: a process with its own questions, distinct from either financial measure described here.

Used in: Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables

The Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, the conditions the Gambling Commission attaches to an operating licence. The Commission can amend them after consultation, without Parliament.

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The statutory calculation base, which differs by licence category. For non-lottery licences it includes relevant stakes and other income excluding VAT, less prizes or winnings; current guidance uses GB-customer revenue.

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Deposits minus withdrawals over a stated window. The financial vulnerability check is triggered on net deposits; the white paper had proposed a net loss figure instead.

Used in: Which Gambling Act Review measures apply to UK players now, and which are still to come, Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when, Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables

A proposed independent body for gambling-harm and social-responsibility complaints. The sources checked for this register give no confirmed launch date.

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The authorisation from the Gambling Commission that section 33(2) of the Gambling Act 2005 treats as the exception to the offence.

Used in: Jurisdiction before the headline: what changes, for whom, and from when

A check of public records such as bankruptcy orders and county court judgments, run on the account when the net deposit threshold is exceeded.

Used in: Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when

The Commission's searchable record of gambling businesses, personal licences, regulatory actions, public statements and premises.

Used in: Jurisdiction before the headline: what changes, for whom, and from when

The Remote Gambling and Software Technical Standards, the Commission's technical rules for remote gambling, including the rules on game design.

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The territory, product, audience and unit a rule concerns; part of the fact, not an optional footnote.

Used in: UK online casino regulation changes: how to read the dates and scope

The amount put at risk in a particular bet.

Used in: Which Gambling Act Review measures apply to UK players now, and which are still to come, Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when, Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables, The gambling levy’s 1.1% rate is an operator calculation

Secondary legislation made by ministers under a power in an Act. It carries its own commencement wording, which is where its in-force date is found.

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A short break from an account that the customer asks for; Play in Balance covers that control, and this bulletin does not.

Used in: Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when

A condition specifying a total value of qualifying bets before specified funds become withdrawable.

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A condition that a customer plays through bonus funds a stated multiple of them before the balance can be withdrawn. The LCCP now caps that multiple.

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A request to transfer eligible funds out of an account through a supported method.

Used in: Which Gambling Act Review measures apply to UK players now, and which are still to come, Affordability checks gambling: what changes, for whom, and from when, Financial vulnerability checks and financial risk assessments run on different timetables, The gambling levy’s 1.1% rate is an operator calculation