Gambling Regulation Act 2024
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PART 6 Obligations on Licensees and other Persons | ||
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Chapter 1 Obligations on licensees and other persons: advertising, branded clothing and engagement of children in providing relevant gambling activity | ||
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Interpretation (Chapter 1 – Part 6) | ||
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141. In this Chapter— | ||
“Act of 2009” means the Broadcasting Act 2009 ; | ||
“applicable regulations”, in relation to advertising, means regulations made under section 144 ; | ||
“audiovisual on-demand media service” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2009; | ||
“broadcaster” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2009; | ||
“broadcasting service” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2009; | ||
“editorial responsibility” means, in relation to an on-demand sound service, effective control over— | ||
(a) the selection of sound programmes or sound recordings, or both, as the case may be, and | ||
(b) the organisation of those programmes or recordings, or both, as the case may be, in a programme schedule or a catalogue which lists programmes or recordings that are available; | ||
“electronic communications network” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 (1) of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 ; | ||
“on-demand sound service” means a service (within the meaning of Articles 56 and 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) where— | ||
(a) the principal purpose of the service, or of a dissociable section of the service, is to provide sound programmes or sound recordings by electronic communications networks to the general public in order to inform, entertain or educate, and | ||
(b) that service is under the editorial responsibility of the provider of that service; | ||
“relevant content” means, in relation to advertising— | ||
(a) a relevant gambling activity, or | ||
(b) in the case of a Business to Consumer gambling licence, the licensee of that gambling licence; | ||
“social media service” means a website or software application (commonly known and in this Chapter referred to as an “app”) that permits a person who is a registered user of the service, has an account with the service or who creates a profile with the service to do any or all of the following— | ||
(a) create, share and view user-generated content on the website or application, | ||
(b) generate content on the website or software application that can be viewed by other users of the service, or | ||
(c) communicate with other users of the service; | ||
“video-sharing platform service” has the same meaning as it has in section 2(2) and (3) of the Act of 2009. |