Remote Gaming (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

L.N. 110 of 2006

LOTTERIES AND OTHER GAMES ACT

(CAP. 438)

Remote Gaming (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 78 of the Lotteries

and Other Games Act, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance has

made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Remote Gaming

(Amendment) Regulations, 2006 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Remote Gaming Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred

to as “the principal regulations”.

Immediately after sub-regulation (4) of regulation 40 of the

principal regulations, there shall be inserted the following new sub-

regulation>

“(5) For the purpose of avoiding doubt as to the effect of

this regulation, save as may be explicitly stipulated in the garnishee

order any precautionary or executive garnishee order shall not have

any effect or be construed as ever having had any effect on players’

funds, including funds in the licensee’s clients’ account held with

a credit institution or in an account of a trustee who on behalf of

the licensee holds, manages, administers or deals in any other way

with players funds, held with a credit institution, players’ funds in

transit or in the process of being cleared through the banking system

or by credit card processing companies, including credit or financial

institutions, and any players’ funds held in other accounts held

with a credit institution belonging to or controlled by the licensee

or belonging to or controlled by a trustee as aforesaid, as the

Authority may have determined in terms of paragraph (b) of sub-

regulation 2 of this regulation to be included with funds in the

clients’ accounts.”.

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