Law and order: Northern Ireland faces a test of out-of-date laws versus an out-of-control machine

The regulatory fog that engulfs the Northern Ireland gambling market has got that little bit thicker, if that was at all possible. The bête noir of gaming machines, the FOBT, has finally succumbed to the law enforcers with the police arresting a bookmaker last week for a seeming breach of Northern Ireland’s gambling laws. Charges, however, now rest in the hands of the public prosecutors who will assess whether to pursue a test case that pits the fixed odds betting terminal against the Northern Irish gambling legislature. Northern Ireland’s gambling laws have not changed since Margaret Thatcher [ ] The post Law and order: Northern Ireland faces a test of out-of-date laws versus an out-of-control machine appeared first on Coinslot.
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