Licence

A site aimed at consumers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence. Sites without one are not unregulated in the abstract — they hold a licence somewhere else, and the difference is what that licence obliges them to do.

The section works through the alternatives: Malta MGA, Gibraltar, Curaçao and Anjouan, along with offshore, international and foreign operators serving British players.

Two things are worth separating. Offering unlicensed gambling to Britain is the operator’s offence, not the player’s; but outside the UKGC there is no British complaints route, no statutory dispute scheme and no deposit-protection statement to fall back on.

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