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Belize Online Gambling Regulation, Licensing & Tax Regime

National jurisdiction
4 restricted · 16 not yet assessed → 20 classes
Regulator: Gaming Control Board / Gaming and Lotteries Commission (Ministry of … · Collected 25 Oct 2026 · Published 25 Oct 2026 · Changed 4 Oct 2026 PDF Sign in for PDF Compare
Regulatory DimensionBelize Standing Position
JurisdictionBelize (BZ)
Primary Gambling RegulatorGaming Control Board / Gaming and Lotteries Commission (Ministry of Finance)
Product Access Summary4 restricted · 16 not yet assessed
Permitted (Open) VerticalsNone recorded as open
Restricted / Monopoly VerticalsCasino, Poker, Bingo, Lottery
Verification & CurrencyAI research, not expert reviewed · Published 25 Oct 2026 (collected 25 Oct 2026)

Can we offer our product?

Every product class, in fixed taxonomy order. The band is what you can do; where the recorded legal status says something the band does not, it is shown beside the product.

Player products

  • Casino
    Restricted
  • Poker
    Restricted
  • Bingo
    Restricted
  • Lottery
    Restricted
  • Sports betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Other event betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Horse and greyhound racing betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Esports betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Exchange betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Pool betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Virtual event betting
    Not yet assessed
  • Fantasy sports
    Not yet assessed
  • Skill games
    Not yet assessed
  • Prediction markets
    Not yet assessed
  • Sweepstakes
    Not yet assessed
  • Free play
    Not yet assessed

Supply roles

  • Software / B2B
    Not yet assessed
  • Affiliate marketing
    Not yet assessed
  • Payments for gambling
    Not yet assessed

Settlement rail

  • Crypto gambling
    Not yet assessed

No class-level certainty grade is recorded for this jurisdiction yet; confidence is carried per section below.

Board briefing

Belize gaming law is mid-transition: a new Commission exists on paper, but the old Board/Committee regime and a hard online moratorium still govern reality.

What has changed

  • Act No. 3 of 2026 (assented 23 Feb 2026) consolidates four historic gambling statutes and creates a Gaming and Lotteries Commission, but states no commencement date, so its practical effect is unverified.

What to do now

  • Treat any claimed Belize online gaming licence as illegal per the 9 June 2025 government notice; for land-based casino/lottery activity, verify counterparties against the legacy Gaming Control Board / Lotteries Committee regime via IPCU, since no Commission register exists yet.

What to watch

  • Commencement order/notice for Act No. 3 of 2026; publication of a Commission licence register; any lifting of the online moratorium.

11 answers, each dated and graded

The weather grades favourability for an operator, not legality: legality is the product table above. The left rule is our confidence: solid confirmed, dashed probable, dotted uncertain.

Unfavourable

The Gaming and Lotteries Control Act, 2026 (Act No. 3 of 2026), assented 23 February 2026, repeals the Gambling Prevention Act (Cap 109), the Computer Wagering Licensing Act (Cap 149), the Lotteries Control Act (Cap 151) and the Gaming Control Act (Cap 152) under its section 61, and its section 62 d…

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The Gaming and Lotteries Control Act, 2026 (Act No. 3 of 2026), assented 23 February 2026, repeals the Gambling Prevention Act (Cap 109), the Computer Wagering Licensing Act (Cap 149), the Lotteries Control Act (Cap 151) and the Gaming Control Act (Cap 152) under its section 61, and its section 62 deems licences issued under those predecessor statutes to continue once the new Act takes effect. No commencement date has been located. Pending commencement, the Gaming Control Board — a nine-member body appointed by the Minister under Cap 152 — continues to issue Gaming Premises (Casino) and Gaming Machine (Establishment) licences, with the Investment Promotion and Compliance Unit acting as its secretariat for application processing, background checks and compliance site visits across the licence classes it administers, including online gaming. The Lotteries Committee, established under Cap 151 and comprising the Auditor General or a representative, the responsible ministry's chief executive or representative, the Secretary to the Gaming Control Board, and three further Board members, continues to issue lottery licences in parallel. The 2025 Bill precursor to Act No. 3 of 2026 establishes a Gaming and Lotteries Commission with a separate governing Board of Directors intended to supersede this structure on commencement, while a June 2025 notice and a conflicting 2022 Board notice give differing accounts of which online operators, if any, hold a valid licence.

Uncertain · AI-generated · Read full analysis & tables →
10 · How hard does the regulator enforce?

Belize Gambling — Enforcement

Mixed

Belize's clearest enforcement precedent is the Lotteries Committee's 2023 revocation of Brads Gaming Group Ltd's exclusive licence to administer the government lotteries, taken for material and substantial breaches of licence conditions; administration passed to the newly incorporated state-owned Be…

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Belize's clearest enforcement precedent is the Lotteries Committee's 2023 revocation of Brads Gaming Group Ltd's exclusive licence to administer the government lotteries, taken for material and substantial breaches of licence conditions; administration passed to the newly incorporated state-owned Belize Government Lotteries Limited. On the online side, enforcement posture has been communicated through public notice rather than individual proceedings: an 18 February 2022 Gaming Control Board notice stated that one named operator held a valid Belize online licence while treating other claimed licensees as invalid, and a 9 June 2025 government notice superseded that position, declaring a moratorium on new online licensing and stating that no online gaming companies are currently licensed in Belize, with any claim to the contrary characterised as illegal. The two notices are internally inconsistent across time, and the operative enforcement theory targets the false assertion of current licensure itself rather than gambling activity as such. The practical revocation risk for a licensed entrant centres on material breach of licence conditions, as demonstrated by the Brads Gaming Group case, and on any public claim of online licensure that the current moratorium notice would characterise as illegal.

Probable · AI-generated · 5 enforcement events · Read full analysis & tables →
Evidential record & source register 0 enforcement · 5 red flags · 0 sources · Expand full record

What gets operators fined

5 red flags (2 high, 2 medium) and 0 controls that address them.

  • high
    Act No. 3 of 2026 repeals four Acts (s.61) but states no commencement date in the text reviewed.
    Until commencement, it is unclear whether the repeal is in effect; legacy Cap 152/151 bodies may remain the only lawful issuing authorities.
    Sources
  • high
    No Gaming and Lotteries Commission website or licence register was located.
    Absent a public register, market participants cannot independently verify licensing status, compounding the moratorium-era illegality risk.
    Sources
  • medium
    A 2022 Gaming Control Board notice and a 2025 government notice give differing accounts of which, if any, companies hold or held a valid online licence.
    Conflicting official statements across time increase due-diligence risk for counterparties relying on either notice alone.
    Sources
  • medium
    The injected T2 anchor hosted at invest.gov.bz under a filename referencing 'Lotteries Control Act 152' in fact serves Gaming Control Act Cap 152 text.
    File/label mismatch risks mis-citation of the wrong historical Act if not independently verified before reliance.
    Sources
  • critical
    Government notice (9 Jun 2025) states no online gaming companies are currently licensed and any claim of a Belize online licence is illegal.
    Any counterparty or operator asserting an existing 'Belize online gaming licence' should be treated as unlicensed/non-compliant.
    Sources

What we looked for and could not find

Confirmed absence is a finding of its own. These are the questions we searched and could not answer from a citable source, with the searches we ran. Never behind the paywall.

Licensing and regulation. no commencement date for Act No. 3 of 2026, and no published Commission licence register — cannot verify current licence-holder status.
  • searched: Belize Gaming and Lotteries Control Act 2026 commencement date
  • searched: Belize Gaming and Lotteries Commission established 2026
  • searched: Belize Gaming and Lotteries Commission website register
  • checked: agm.gov.bz
Entry pathways/licensing and regulation. no B2B software/platform supplier licence class identified; full Act text beyond ss.1-18, 61-62 not reviewed.
  • searched: Belize gaming software supplier licence
  • searched: Belize B2B gaming licence Act 2026
  • searched: Belize Gaming and Lotteries Control Act full text sections
  • checked: agm.gov.bz
Aml cft regime. no FATF/CFATF mutual evaluation report or AML threshold figures located for Belize gaming sector.
  • searched: Belize CFATF mutual evaluation gaming
  • searched: Belize AML reporting threshold gaming
  • searched: Belize Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act gaming designated entity
  • checked: invest.gov.bz
Player protection. no self-exclusion scheme, deposit limit regime, reality-check requirement or age verification standard identified.
  • searched: Belize gambling self-exclusion register
  • searched: Belize gaming age verification requirement
  • searched: Belize responsible gambling deposit limits
  • checked: invest.gov.bz
Technical compliance. no RNG certification regime, test lab approvals, or technical standards body identified.
  • searched: Belize gaming RNG certification requirement
  • searched: Belize Online Gaming Regulations technical standards
  • searched: Belize gaming test laboratory approved
  • checked: invest.gov.bz
Data protection. no Belize-specific data protection statute or gambling-sector overlay confirmed.
  • searched: Belize Data Protection Act
  • searched: Belize gaming customer data retention requirement
  • searched: Belize supervisory authority data protection gambling
  • checked: invest.gov.bz
Consumer protection. no general consumer law, ADR body, or prize-promotion/free-draw rule identified for Belize gaming.
  • searched: Belize consumer protection law gambling
  • searched: Belize prize promotion free draw rules
  • searched: Belize ADR dispute resolution gambling
  • checked: pressoffice.gov.bz

Source register

Every source on a four-step tier scale. A claim is never shown at a stronger tier than the source it cites.