Arcades must check clients for gambling addiction
Effective date: 1 October 2021
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What changes?
Do you offer risky games of chance in an amusement arcade or casino? You must be connected to the Central Exclusion Register for Games of chance (Centraal Register Uitsluiting Kansspelen, Cruks). Before a customer can play, you must check if this person is registered in Cruks. If they are you cannot allow the player in.
This requirement to have a connection to the Cruks register (in Dutch) also applies to parties offering games of chance via the internet (remote gambling). Cruks is meant to help prevent gambling addiction.
For whom?
- amusement arcades
- casinos
- providers of online games of chance
When?
This change to Remote Gambling Act (Wet Kansspelen op afstand, Wet Koa) has come into force on 1 October 2021.