Betting (Amendment) Act 2015

Register of Remote Bookmaking Operations

19. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section:

“8B. (1) The Revenue Commissioners shall establish and maintain a register (to be known, and in this Act referred to, as the ‘Register of Remote Bookmaking Operations’) of all remote bookmakers’ licences and remote betting intermediaries’ licences issued under this Act.

(2) The Revenue Commissioners shall, in relation to a remote bookmaker’s licence or remote betting intermediary’s licence, enter the following particulars in the Register of Remote Bookmaking Operations:

(a) the name and trading name (if different) of the holder of the remote bookmaker’s licence or remote betting intermediary’s licence, as the case may be;

(b) the address at which the holder of the remote bookmaker’s licence or remote betting intermediary’s licence, as the case may be, ordinarily resides or the address of his principal office or place of business;

(c) in the case of a remote bookmaker’s licence or remote betting intermediary’s licence held by a body corporate, the names of the relevant officers of the body corporate;

(d) such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(3) If a remote bookmaker’s licence or remote betting intermediary’s licence is revoked, the Revenue Commissioners shall remove all entries in relation to that licence from the Register of Remote Bookmaking Operations.

(4) The Revenue Commissioners shall cause the Register of Remote Bookmaking Operations to be published on the internet or in such other manner as they consider appropriate.”.