Gambling Regulatory Deadlines to Watch in September 2025

Each month, we leverage data from our gambling regulatory updates to bring you a glimpse of the key response deadlines and legislation effective dates coming up, so you can plan and take action around some of the most important regulatory developments unfolding right now.

In September, there are 16 regulatory deadlines on the horizon - with 4 key consultation periods coming to an end and requiring a response, and 6 actionable deadlines to be aware of coming into effect.

What are the regulatory deadlines to watch in September?

Norway

The application deadline for large lottery licences is September 1, 2025. The licenses are for a new nine-year period and are set to take effect from March 1, 2026. The current licenses, held by Postcode Lottery and Pantelotteriet, remain valid until February 2026.

Applicants must meet new financial requirements, including a minimum total capital of NOK 10 million and an equity ratio of at least 20 percent. These stricter requirements are based on insights from previous application periods, which demonstrated the capital-intensive nature of operating large-scale lotteries.

Three licenses are available. If more than three eligible applications are received, the Norwegian Gambling Authority will allocate the licenses through a lottery draw. For further details, applicants can refer to the full announcement here.

Pennsylvania

On January 22, 2025, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) issued updated industry guidance on interactive gaming account multi-factor authentication requirements.

In industry guidance issued directly to interactive gaming and sports wagering operators and certificate holders as well as interactive gaming manufacturers, the PGCB notified such stakeholders of enhanced requirements pertaining to the know-your-customer (KYC) process, which are designed to align Pennsylvania with emerging best practices in other jurisdictions and industries to prevent fraud, bonus abuse, account sharing and unauthorized account access by self-excluded individuals and those under the legal age of 21.  According to the guidance, operators must implement the enhanced KYC requirements on a going-forward basis and are not required to re-verify existing accounts. The enhanced KYC requirement addresses:

• Identification and liveness check.
• Data accuracy.
• Manual KYC process.
• Additional KYC requirements regarding deceased individual attempts; accounts in multiple jurisdictions; and device account limit.

The enhanced KYC multi-factor authentication (MFA) fraud prevention requirements apply to four areas of the players’ interactive gaming account registration including account creation, MFA, payment methods, and geolocation checks. The purpose of the enhanced KYC requirement is to ensure critical patron identity information is verified as true and accurate. An exact match will be required for the birth date, social security number and last name. Additionally, the birth date and last name must be scraped from the uploaded identification. The enhanced KYC requirement must be implemented by September 30, 2025.

Chile

On August 13, 2025 the Senate voted 27-3 to provisionally approve a bill to establish a national licensing regime for both sports betting and online casino games that was introduced by the government in March 2022. Senators have been granted until 12pm on September 29 to submit recommendations or amendments to the bill.

The finance and economy committees will then have to meet one or more times to discuss and propose a final version, which would then be submitted for another vote of the full Senate. If the bill is amended by the Senate, it would also have to go back to the Chamber of Deputies for members of the lower house to either accept the changes or form a joint committee with the Senate to reconcile the two versions. “It’s impossible that it could happen before the end of the year,” Carlos Baeza, a lawyer based in Santiago told Vixio. “Probably we will have a final bill toward the end of next year.  “After that, we have six months for the regulations to be issued, a deadline that is rarely met, and six months for the licensing process, so at least another year. We won’t have licences in operation until mid-2028.”

Slovakia

On November 18, 2024, the Office for the Regulation of Gambling (URHH) published Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing guidance for gambling operators.

The guidance, which includes detailed explanations on the obligations that gambling operators and their employees have to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism, is also meant to “clarify the expectations that the authority has when exercising its supervisory duties in the area of AML/CFT”. Gambling operators are required to comply with the new guidance by September 30, 2025 at the latest.

United Kingdom

On August 18, 2025, the UK Gambling Commission launched a consultation on proposed amendments to Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) due to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024.

The DMCC Act aims "to update and strengthen consumer rights and protections and improve access to alternative dispute resolution for consumer contract disputes", revoking and replacing the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPUTR) 2008. The act also revokes the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations (ADRR) 2015, which will be replaced with new provisions. The commission is consulting on the following set of four proposed changes to LCCP:

• Removing the reference to CPUTR 2008 from paragraph 4 of Licence Condition (LC) 7.1.1 (Fair and transparent terms and practices) and replacing it with the DMCC Act.

• Removing the reference to CPUTR 2008 from Social Responsibility Code Provision (SRCP) 5.1.9 (1) (Other marketing requirements) and replacing it with the DMCC Act.
• Amending footnote ‘a’ of SRCP 6.1.1 (Complaints and disputes) for it to refer to the accreditation procedure under the DMCC Act rather than ADRR 2015.
• Removing footnote ‘b’ of SRCP 6.1.1 (Complaints and disputes) which refers to ‘a list of providers that meet the Gambling Commission’s additional standards’ as this will no longer be applicable.
  

The commission will also amend their website and guidance documents with the new piece of legislation. The consultation closes on September 29, 2025, and the responses can be sent via an online survey.

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