In making betting public across Russia as well as acquiring more clients, the Russia’s Communication Ministry has put in place the 24 hour advertisement on various betting sites and bookmaking offices in the nation. This is a new bill that was tabled to the parliamentarian and is expected to go through as betting will form a basis of revenue for the Russian Government through taxation.

This new bill that is to be tabled will act as an amendment clause to the Article 27 of the Law on Advertising. This amendment will imply that betting and bookmaking office advertisement will be made throughout the day across the nation. Nevertheless, the Government will take full control of the advertisement and will in turn incorporate stern rules and terms that would avoid any bias or exaggeration of the advertised product. Hence, the products to be advertised will be put on check.

One of the main restrictions to be incorporated would involve being on the lookout especially to those adverts that would focus mostly to the under age or those who have not attained the betting age. It will also make sure that the betting agents do not put more pressure on wagers to make them see it as a way to earn a living. This means that the adverts will avoid inflating winnings which would be hazardous to some bettors.

These advertisements on gambling are scheduled to be staged via TVs, Radios, printing media, at various facilities that offer sports as well as physical fitness, online advertising and also in various buildings where an array of activities takes place. On the other hand, these adverts are banned in airports, rail station, metro stations or any other related fields.

The to be amended Article 27 of Law on Advertisement implied that these adverts would only be made via TVs and radios. On other platforms such as areas of interests like gyms, the adverts were time restricted only from 10 p.m to 7 a.m.

‘QuickCall’ feature has been dropped by Ladbrokes Australia following pressure by the United Kingdom operator that forced the bookmaker to drop the in play-betting service based on an investigation on breaches in gambling laws that is currently underway by the Federal Police and (ACMA) Australian Communication & Media Authority.

William Hill, Bet365 and Ladbrokes Australia are the top three leading United Kingdom bookmakers in the market. Ladbrokes Australia will however be forced to withdraw the feature in its digital platform. But at the moment there is no response from the bookmaker on the matter and the actions they would take on it.

ACMA also made a statement that all Australian broadcasters and media channels will no longer be allowed to make advertisement on the controversial feature until the case at hand has been sorted out. Thus advertisement for ‘the call’ will be removed off the air. The feature was first launched by Ladbrokes Australia and William Hill in the month of April. Since its establishment it has brought controversy mirroring other live betting functions as it enables customers to be able to connect to team markets all through a microphone.

Other bookmakers in the UK have said that the mechanism they use is under the Gambling Act Provision of 2001, where the wagers by the customers are only processed if the customer approves of the selections they have made. ACMA responded to this by posting new guideline that the call feature did not involve other service providers that has customers using the normal telephone services which is a requirement according to the act.

In this month the ACMA proceeded to pass the investigation to the Federal Police with claims that it was a breach to the laws of the nation and they were the right force to handle this as the communication agency could not advise on the matter. With this the UK bookmaker will therefore be forced to drop the feature that it offers to its customers until the matter has been sorted out.

The proposed draft legislation 671-2015, has been progressed by the Brazil’s senate. The legislation will see that fixed odds sports betting meet a regulatory requirement. Currently, the Brazilian gambling law permits players to gamble on land based casinos, lottery and horse racing events that are licensed.

Brazil is one of the potential market in Latin America for international online gambling, which has become very popular. However, the Government of Brazil has been very slow in implementing gambling laws to accommodate the changes in the industry.

Prior to the 2014 World cup, Senator Ciro Nogueira introduced the draft legislation, which emphasized on the need of following physical procedures by the operators seeking to join the Brazillian igaming market irrespective of their listed country of origin. This is the first draft of its kind to have a long and tedious process to meet its goal. On the other hand, other senators opposed stating that Brazil should instead focus on developing regulatory platform based on European style framework to regulate online casino games, poker and online sports betting.
From the media sources, it is evident that the draft legislation progressed because the Senate raised concerns about the popularity of online betting services being operated by remote companies. In addition to that, it came to the concern of the senate that Brazil lacked regulated provisions to curb illegal betting sites that targets the Brazilians.

After progressing in the senate, the draft legislation is now waiting for presidential approval. However, the full details of the betting framework and legislation is not yet known. Nonetheless, Brazil will probably begin to receive applications for licenses from foreign operators. As for now, nothing has been presented to the tax and licensing authority regarding charges on market entry.

Previous attempts to introduce online gambling and betting framework has drawn division of opinion on generating national policy.

Brian Kavanagh, the Horse Racing of Ireland’s chief executive has said there will be no delay to the newly introduced betting tax system in Ireland despite the UK’s point-of-consumption (POC) system that was introduced in December 2014.

The British law, referred to the High Court in London was found in favor of Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA), which argued that the issue of raising online gambling taxes should be decided by the European court.

The UK’sPOC is being challenged by GBGA on grounds that the new tax discriminates and restricts movement of services of non–UK businesses that operate within EU.

On behalf of HRI, Kavanagh said that the British Governmentcould be forced to repay taxes already secured and that HRI would pay close attention to developments

“It is not an unexpected development. It is one to watch but not one to have concerns about. We will have to wait and check out the detail of the case,” said Brian Kavanagh.

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Kavanagh stated that the introduction of the new betting bill in Ireland should not be delayed with UK POC regulated issues, which in the past has seen numerous delays. Kavanagh is confident of implementing the new bill, having seen it go through the EU scrutiny concerning its anticipated framework.

“It has been through the European validation process. Now whether this case in Britain is a technicality whereby the validation process can be tested in court, I do not know.”

“But the system has been operating in Britain since December and the Irish system will come in in a few weeks time so there will be no hold up in that respect. I think it is a case of watching what is going on. Both pieces of legislation, in both jurisdictions, had to be run by the EU before being introduced so they’ve been through that process,” Kavanagh added

Senate has now eradicated Bill C-290. This bill which was agreed by the senate and the House of Commons claims that betting sites would be allowed to legalize the betting of a single outcome event. The bill was first initiated by Windsor New Democrat MP Joe Comartin in 2012 who was the Minister of Federal Justice. It was later to be seconded by Conservative MP Rob Nicholson. It would later emerge that no one went against it and it went through unopposed.

The fact that bettors could merge two events and wage on them made Americans cross the border to Canada to have this opportunity and due to this two betting sites namely; Casino Niagara and Caesars Windsor took the chance to initiate the service for the incoming American visitors. In turn the process would generate huge revenue for the government as well as creation of job opportunities for the Canadians.

Moreover, the provincial governments have initiated a plan where they would deter the acquisitions of cash to organized crimes that is emanating from the unlawful betting on sports.

It has been claimed by the Canadian Gaming Association that more than $40 billion has been conducted via online or by individuals for the last three years since the this bill was passed by the senate in 2012. The CEO of Canadian Gaming Association Bill Rutsey claimed that the stories have been highlighted several times by the media. He gave an example where a police officer was detained when he involved himself with mafia bookmaker on illegal betting. He added that there was evident co-operation between Hells Angels and the Platinum Sportsbook bust from Super Bowl 2013. By this he meant that the beneficiaries of the illegal betting is not the government but rather gang sections as well as offshore operators and these don’t have a regulatory licenses to operate.

Implying on these happenings, the senate would have rather voted for the bill which has foreseen the government lose a lot of revenue from taxes and this would lower the economic growth of the nation. Generally it was a wrong idea for the senators who in turn should not be elected back to the parliament come the elections.