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AI Summary of Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 (enacted 23 October 2024)

Version status: Amended
Version date: 16 October 2024 - onwards
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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 (enacted 23 October 2024)

Introduction of this Bill

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.

Sponsor
Minister for Justice
Source
Government
Originating House
Dáil Éireann
History of this Bill
Date Stage House Document Link
16 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Bills As Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
14 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
10 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
8 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Debates Report and Final Stages
8 October 2024 4 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Seanad]
3 October 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Bills As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]
2 October 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Debates Committee Stage (Resumed)
26 September 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Debates Committee Stage (Resumed)
25 September 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Debates Committee Stage
25 September 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Seanad]
14 May 2024 2 Seanad Éireann Debates Second Stage
1 May 2024 5 Dáil Éireann Bills As passed by Dáil Éireann
1 May 2024 5 Dáil Éireann Debates Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
24 April 2024 4 Dáil Éireann Debates Report Stage
23 April 2024 4 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
11 July 2023 3 Dáil Éireann Debates Committee Stage
11 July 2023 3 Dáil Éireann Bills As amended in Committee/Select Committee (Dáil Eireann)
10 July 2023 3 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
15 December 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Other Documents Glossary/Gluais
6 December 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Referral to Select Committee
6 December 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage
2 December 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Explanatory memoranda Explanatory Memorandum
2 December 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Bills As initiated
16 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Debates From the Seanad
Future version Amendment requiring commencement Draft proposed change