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REMOTE GAMBLING: DA CALLS FOR COMMENTS ON REVISED BILL PROPOSALS
- 08 November 2024
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
Input is sought by 8 December 2024 on proposals for a Remote Gambling Bill to be tabled by Democratic Alliance (DA) representative in the National Assembly’s Trade, Industry & Competition Committee, Toby Chance.
Apparently building on a piece of legislation with the same title introduced in April 2024 by the DA’s Dean Macpherson and allowed to lapse when Parliament rose for the May 2024 elections, the revised Bill envisaged will seek to:
- prevent remote gambling from being a source of, associated with or used to support crime, disorder and money laundering
- ensure that all remote gambling activities are conducted responsibly, fairly and honestly
- ensure respect for the privacy of remote gambling participants, and
- prevent minors and other vulnerable persons from being exposed to the negative effects of gambling.
This is according to the explanatory summary, which also notes the importance of:
- providing ‘a legal basis for the regulation, licensing and control of all remote gambling activities’, and
- preserving South Africa’s ‘integrity … as a responsible global citizen by ensuring an efficient and effective remote gambling regulatory regime’.
To that end, among other things the proposed new piece of legislation will seek to:
- enable the relevant provincial licensing authorities to issue remote gambling licences and to control remote gambling activities in their respective provinces
- provide for the licensing of key persons employed in the remote gambling industry
- enable the National Gambling Board to undertake related oversight, evaluation and monitoring functions
- provide for the respective powers, responsibilities and functions of provincial licensing authorities and the National Gambling Board in respect of remote gambling
- introduce uniform norms and standards, including standards with which remote gambling web-based platforms and equipment should comply
- provide for application, renewal, suspension, cancellation and transfer processes for different categories of remote gambling licence
- provide for related objection procedures, and
- facilitate the enforcement of Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001, compliance.
Please click the links below for more information:
- explanatory summary
- lapsed April 2024 Bill
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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