Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?

Under the Gaming Services and Gaming Work Regulation, the production of games for use in online gaming schemes has been expressly excluded from the definition of "gaming services" where the supplier does not distribute directly to the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC). This scoping exclusion removes the Independent Gambling Control Office (IGCO) registration trigger for upstream suppliers positioned behind a direct distributor, narrowing the population of parties captured by the technical-compliance registration regime. The exclusion operates within the regulation introduced alongside the Gaming Control Act, which took full effect on 13 April 2026. The specific re-testing or re-approval threshold that would otherwise apply to such upstream suppliers, and the detailed product-design standards (such as limits on autoplay, game speed or stake caps), were not located in primary IGCO text available; these are likely held in non-public registrant technical standards rather than published Regulations. Operators and suppliers assessing their registration status should treat the test as turning on whether their commercial relationship terminates in direct distribution to BCLC, since that is the operative boundary the exclusion draws, pending further primary-source confirmation of its precise scope and any associated certification requirements.