Law & Licensing
What a British licence actually obliges an operator to do
A licence is not a badge, it is a list of conditions. The ones that change what a player sees, including the ten times cap that arrived in January 2026.
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Gambling law reaches a player as a list of conditions rather than as a statute, and the conditions change. This section is about who is permitted to take your custom, what the permission obliges them to do in return, where the rules differ on either side of the Irish Sea, and how to settle any of it yourself from the public register instead of taking a page at its word.
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What GAMSTOP covers, and the gaps it was never built to cover
One registration reaches every online operator licensed for Britain, and stops at the edge of that licence. Where the boundary falls, and what sits outside it.
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The advertising rules a gambling review page has to follow
An affiliate page is advertising, and the licensee answers for it. What that means for the words on the page, including the ones on this site.
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Checking a licence number yourself, without taking anyone’s word
The Gambling Commission publishes its register as four downloadable files. The order to match them in, and the two mistakes that give confident wrong answers.
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Age and residence: who may hold an account in Britain and Ireland
Britain settled this in 2005 and Ireland is settling it now, in phases. What each side of the Irish Sea currently permits, and from when.