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Following a raft of new house competitions announced in the last few months, last week the Gambling Commission published a notice on its website urging homeowners to be aware of the rules surrounding games of skill versus illegal lotteries in the UK. As we reported yesterday, one of the UK’s most visible house competitions, the Devon Oldborough Retreat competition, was forced to postpone its prize draw despite selling all tickets two months in advance. According to this latest statement on its website, it appears that the Gambling Commission is concerned about a number of similar schemes operating in the UK. "The Commission has become aware of a number of schemes that are intended to operate as prize competitions in line with the Gambling Act 2005. Where the schemes are causing concern, we have taken the step of writing to the scheme operators in order to question whether the skill, judgment or knowledge element of their schemes to win a house is sufficient to meet the requirements of the Act, in particular the test at section 14(5). Click here to read the full statement on the Gambling Commission website. Related items
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Hits: 1380 Comments & Opinions1 comments so far, what say you? Subscribe to this comment's feedRe: Gambling Commission warns homeowners about ‘house competitions’ Seems all very fluffy to me to be frank. What I just don't understand is why they can't provide better guidance? Why not make it easy for people to be in line with their regulations? After all is their role not to provide a clear framework, which in turn will protect consumers, but also those help operators to offer competitions that are compliant? I think it could be so much easier, but it certainly keeps lawyers in business :) |



