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Internet Gambling Report in Various Jurisdictions
ANNEX C
LETTER TO RESPONDENTS
Our Ref: 52/55/36
26 January 2000
Dear
BOARD STUDY OF GAMING ON THE INTERNET
The Board received around 20 responses from the industry and others to its
invitation to contribute to this study. Yours was one of those. Almost all
respondents agreed that the only feasible and sensible option is to establish a
system in this country which permits, regulates and controls access to Internet
gaming.
The Board is now considering what exactly it should say to government on the
issue in the light of those responses. In analysing them however, the Board has
identified a number of specific matters on which it felt it should give respondents
a further opportunity to offer comment.
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he Board expressed its view in its consultation document that the current law
prohibited the establishment of Internet gaming sites in Great Britain.
Nobody questioned this in the responses. Is it therefore universally accepted
that primary legislation is needed? If any respondents have received legal
opinions on this issue, which they would be willing to disclose to the Board,
we should be interested to see them.
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Many of the respondents emphasized the need to act urgently, with some
saying that action could not afford even to await the recently announced
general gambling review. But little was said to justify the need for urgency.
There was little evidence that Internet gaming was affecting current terrestrial
operations or that large numbers of people were gambling on the Internet.
Any comments made were more in the nature of concern at lost opportunities >>
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