Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 (Bill 114 of 2022)

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.
oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/114/