UK gambling regulator to issue guidance on ‘gambling software’

Out-Law.com – The Gambling Commission has set out plans to ensure that the manufacture, supply, installation and adaption of gambling software is only carried out by holders of gambling software licences. However, in a slight softening of previous proposals, the regulator said that it will not require “each and every business within an extended supply chain to hold a gambling software licence”. The restrictions are “important both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling”, it said. “By 1 January 2015 operators will have to cease using gambling software manufactured, supplied, installed or adapted…