Slot machines, gaming machines, betting terminals

Act on the offering, placing and brokering of bets and the brokering of betting customers [Styrian Betting Act 2017 – German designation: StWG]

The draft Act serves to transpose Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. Furthermore, it stipulates the revision of several definitions and the reorganisation of the scope of the Betting Act. The Act also contains comprehensive provisions concerned with the protection of betting customers including, for example, the compulsory display of betting conditions on betting terminals, requirements in terms of the issuance of a betting card and a betting slip as well as a redefinition of prohibited betting, in particular the ban on live betting.