Consultation response
January 2025 Consultation on proposed changes to the GMTS, Testing Strategy and LCCP: Consultation Response
Our position in relation to the consultation covering the Gaming Machine Technical Standards, Gaming Machine Testing Strategy and LCCP published in January 2025.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Summary of responses and our position
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- Proposal 1: Consolidation and update of the Gaming Machine Technical Standards
- Proposal 2: Update of the Gaming Machine Testing Strategy
- Proposal 3: Defining a ‘session’ for the purposes of the proposals in relation to limit setting functionality and the display of net position and elapsed time
- Proposal 4: Introduce a new Gaming Machine Technical Standard that would require the availability of limit setting functionality
- Proposal 5: Amend social responsibility code provision (SCRP) 3.3.3 to place specific requirements on licensees making category B gaming machines available for use
- Proposal 6: Introduce a new Gaming Machine Technical Standard that would require the provision of safer gambling messaging during breaks in play under limit setting functionality
- Proposal 7: Introduce a new Gaming Machine Technical Standard that would require the display of net position and elapsed time
- Proposal 8: Introduce a new Gaming Machine Technical Standard that would ensure awards below the stake size are not celebrated
- Proposal 9: Introduce a new Gaming Machine Technical Standard that would prohibit features that permit a customer to reduce the time until a result is known
- Industry proposals to improve consumer enjoyment and gameplay
- Proposal 10: Gaming Machine Technical Standard 5.14 Game links – adjusting the value and the number of repeats permissible on category C gaming machines
- Proposal 11: Gaming Machine Technical Standard 5.14 Game links – removing the need for a 50/50 chance following a losing game on category B gaming machines
- Proposal 12: Gaming Machine Technical Standard 5.9 Live jackpots – allowing a player to gamble a live jackpot win on all categories of gaming machine
- Guidance relating to testing requirements and the classification of gaming machines and/or games as ‘new’ or ‘existing’ for the purposes of Gaming Machine Technical Standard 15
- Impacts, evaluation and implementation of relevant changes
- Annexes
Introduction
On 29 January 2025 we issued our gaming machine consultation (opens in new tab). The consultation closed on 3 June 2025.
We received 1,065 responses to the consultation from the following categories of respondents:
- 4 from members of the public
- 5 from charities and/or non-profit organisations
- 52 from a person representing a gambling business (referred to as licensees throughout this publication)
- 1 from a person representing a licensing authority or other regulator
- 2 from a person representing a professional body, including academic organisations
- 5 from a person representing a trade association
- 4 from a person, responding in a personal capacity who is or has worked in a gambling business
- 2 from an academic, responding as an individual
- 990 from a person representing a club.
The organisations that consented to the publication of their name when responding to the consultation are listed in Annex 1.
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