Gambling licences and what each one means

A licence names the regulator that oversees an operator and the place you can complain to. It does not say the operator is good, and it does not say the operator may serve you where you live.

• Gambling Commission (UKGC)

  Jurisdiction: Great Britain.

  13 dated history entries

• Malta Gaming Authority (MGA)

  Jurisdiction: Malta.

  6 dated history entries

• Gibraltar Gambling Division and Gambling Commissioner

  Jurisdiction: Gibraltar.

  7 dated history entries

• Gambling Supervision Commission (Isle of Man)

  Jurisdiction: Isle of Man.

  8 dated history entries

• iGaming Ontario and the AGCO

  Jurisdiction: Ontario, Canada.

  5 dated history entries

• Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission

  Jurisdiction: Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Quebec, Canada.

  3 dated history entries

• Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA)

  Jurisdiction: Curaçao.

  10 dated history entries

• Anjouan Gaming (Autonomous Island of Anjouan)

  Jurisdiction: Anjouan, Union of the Comoros.

  3 dated history entries

How to read a licence

Operators usually print a licence number in the site footer. Look that number up on the regulator’s own register, which each page above links to, and check the name and the status.

A licence covers what its regulator says it covers. Read the “where it applies” line on each page before you rely on it.

Each page also lists what the licence does not tell you, with the regulator’s own wording behind every statement.