Gambling Regulation Act 2024
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Approved training programme | ||
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162. (1) The Authority shall set the content to be included and the standards to be met by a training programme for the purposes of satisfying the requirements of section 163 for a relevant post and shall publish the content and standards on its website. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the content of a training programme referred to in that subsection shall include, but not be limited to, material which ensures that a person who successfully completes the programme will— | ||
(a) be able to recognise the identifying characteristics of excessive or compulsive gambling, | ||
(b) have a detailed knowledge of gambling support services, | ||
(c) understand the licensee’s obligations under this Part, and | ||
(d) be able to assist the licensee in complying with his or her obligations under this Part. | ||
(3) The Authority shall publish on its website a list of training programmes (each of which, in this Chapter, is referred to as an “approved training programme”) that meet the content and standards referred to in subsection (1). | ||
(4) The Authority may remove an approved training programme from the list published under subsection (3) where it considers, following a review of the programme, that it no longer meets the content and standards referred to in subsection (1). | ||
(5) Where, in accordance with subsection (4), an approved training programme is removed and, immediately before the date of its removal, a person is attending the approved training programme, the approved training programme shall, if it continues in operation, be deemed an approved training programme for the purposes of the requirement that that person has completed an approved training programme in accordance with section 163 (1). |