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Upcoming changes

29 November 2024

Personal management licence

Changes to the specified management offices under licence condition 1.2.1 of the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) to both clarify and extend the roles captured under this requirement. The provision will come into force on 29 November 2024. You can read more about this change including the final wording of the provision in the response to the consultation published May 2024.

28 February 2025

Financial vulnerability checks

Social Responsibility (SR) Code 3.4.4 came into force from 30 August 2024, with an implementation threshold of £500. From 28 February 2025, the relevant threshold is where the customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceeds £150 in a rolling 30-day period. You can read more about this change including the final wording of the provision in the response to the consultation published May 2024.

1 May 2025

Improving customer choice on direct marketing

The new requirement 'Social Responsibility (SR) Code Provision 5.1.12 – Direct Marketing Preferences’ for remote gambling businesses to provide customers with options to control the marketing they wish to receive will come into force from 1 May 2025. You can read more about this change including the final wording of the provision in the response to the consultation published May 2024.

The implementation date and paragraph 6 of the SR code for this change was updated on 27 August 2024. You can read more about the update and implementation extension to upcoming SR Code - 5.1.12 here.

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