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Guernsey Online Gambling Regulation, Licensing & Tax Regime

Sub-national unit
6 open · 14 not yet assessed → 20 classes
Collected 25 Oct 2026 · Published 26 Oct 2026 · Changed 11 Oct 2026 PDF Sign in for PDF Compare
Regulatory DimensionGuernsey Standing Position
JurisdictionGuernsey (GG-ALD)
Primary Gambling RegulatorSee Licensing & Regulation section
Product Access Summary6 open · 14 not yet assessed
Permitted (Open) VerticalsCasino, Poker, Bingo, Lottery, Sports betting, Software / B2B
Verification & CurrencyAI research, not expert reviewed · Published 26 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
    Open
  • Poker
    Open
  • Bingo
    Open
  • Lottery
    Open
  • Sports betting
    Open
  • 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
    Open
  • 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

Alderney remains an operational offshore eGambling hub via AGCC's Category 1/2 licence and Associate Certificate model.

What has changed

  • 2024-2025 AML/proliferation-financing amendments layered onto the 2009 framework; AGCC leadership transition announced.

What to do now

  • Confirm current consolidated legislative text via the AGCC legislation index before relying on 2009 originals; verify AML/PF obligations against the 2024 Regulations.

What to watch

  • AGCC Commissioner bench composition; any published enforcement-action log; a dedicated GGR/tax-rate instrument not yet located in this pass.

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.

Favourable

Section 30 of the Alderney eGambling Ordinance, 2009 now carries a statutory definition of "promote", inserted by the Alderney eGambling (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 and in force since 1 January 2026. The definition clarifies when promotional or marketing activity itself triggers the need for a Categ…

Full analysis · 126 words

Section 30 of the Alderney eGambling Ordinance, 2009 now carries a statutory definition of "promote", inserted by the Alderney eGambling (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 and in force since 1 January 2026. The definition clarifies when promotional or marketing activity itself triggers the need for a Category 1 eGambling licence issued by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. Alongside this definitional change, licence applications and supporting documentation must now be submitted electronically, a procedural requirement that replaces the prior paper-based Schedule 1 application form. Both changes derive from the same 2025 Amendment Ordinance, confirmed by the States of Alderney's Billet d'Etat record dated 17 December 2025, and represent instrument-level changes to the licensing regime rather than a change to the underlying Category 1 and Category 2 licence structure itself.

Confirmed · AI-generated · Read full analysis & tables →
08 · What must the platform meet?

Guernsey Gambling — Technical compliance

Favourable

AGCC requires all eGambling equipment to receive pre-launch approval under the Regulations, and reviews a licensee's internal control systems before go-live. This places a technical-certification gate ahead of commercial launch: a Category 1 or Category 2 licensee must clear its platform, equipment …

Full analysis · 93 words

AGCC requires all eGambling equipment to receive pre-launch approval under the Regulations, and reviews a licensee's internal control systems before go-live. This places a technical-certification gate ahead of commercial launch: a Category 1 or Category 2 licensee must clear its platform, equipment and internal control systems with the Commission before taking the product live, rather than certifying on a post-launch or self-certification basis. For an operator building a launch timeline, this pre-launch review is a structural dependency sitting alongside, rather than instead of, the Regulation 243 capital-adequacy test that gates the licence itself.

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

Guernsey Gambling — Enforcement

Mixed

Two Category 1 eGambling licensees, Hudson Street Labs Limited and Small Screen Casinos Limited, no longer appear on the Alderney Gambling Control Commission's published register, as of 13 and 14 October 2026 respectively, according to a third-party tracker of that register. No AGCC enforcement noti…

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Two Category 1 eGambling licensees, Hudson Street Labs Limited and Small Screen Casinos Limited, no longer appear on the Alderney Gambling Control Commission's published register, as of 13 and 14 October 2026 respectively, according to a third-party tracker of that register. No AGCC enforcement notice, penalty announcement or public statement of reason accompanies either change, and the finding rests on a third-party tracker rather than a direct fetch of the Commission's own register page. Three outcomes remain open: surrender, lapse through non-renewal, or revocation, and the present evidence does not distinguish between them. No change to the Commission's statutory enforcement powers, nor to the Alderney eGambling (Amendment) Ordinance 2025 or the Alderney eGambling (Proliferation Financing etc.) Regulations 2024 that together form the current instrument basis, has been found. The licensee departures are therefore best read as a licence-status change pending confirmation rather than a confirmed enforcement action, and a direct fetch of the Commission's own register page would resolve the open question of cause.

Uncertain · AI-generated · Read full analysis & tables →
Evidential record & source register 0 enforcement · 4 red flags · 0 sources · Expand full record

What gets operators fined

4 red flags (2 medium, 2 low) and 0 controls that address them.

  • medium
    New Proliferation Financing Regulations 2024 and Amendment Ordinances 2024/2025 layered onto 2009 originals
    Compliance teams relying on the 2009 originals without checking the AGCC consolidated/amendment stack risk non-compliance.
    Sources
  • medium
    No public enforcement-action register/log located distinct from the licensee and fee pages
    Limits counterparty due-diligence visibility into AGCC's actual enforcement record.
    Sources
  • low
    AGCC leadership transition announced on the homepage
    Supervisory posture/enforcement priorities may shift with new Commissioner composition.
    Sources
  • low
    AGCC states the Greffier of the States of Alderney, not AGCC itself, is the only official legislative source
    AGCC-hosted consolidated PDFs are convenience copies; legal reliance should verify against the Greffier's register.
    Sources

Worked scenarios

5 entry scenarios, each with the move we would make.

Operator wants a B2C casino/sportsbook brand managing player funds directly

Requires Category 1 eGambling Licence; must form Alderney company, publish Gazette notice, pay £10,000 deposit, meet Reg 243 capital ratios.

Do this: Apply for Category 1 Licence

Sources

B2B platform supplier wants to operate the transaction engine for multiple Cat1 licensees

Requires Category 2 eGambling Licence with an approved hosting centre.

Do this: Apply for Category 2 Licence

Sources

Foreign software studio wants to supply games to an existing Alderney Cat1 licensee without forming an Alderney company

Associate Certificate route applies; certificate cannot be held independently of an existing Cat1/2 licensee relationship.

Do this: Apply for Associate Certificate

Sources

Operator wants to run a 2-week promotional pop-up gambling event

Falls within the 29-continuous-day Temporary Licence window.

Do this: Apply for Temporary eGambling Licence (£10,000 annual fee)

Sources

Existing Cat1 licensee wants to launch 10 additional branded skins on the same back-end

Consistent with observed multi-brand pattern under a single Category 1 licence; AGCC ICS/equipment approval applies per brand launch.

Do this: Notify/seek AGCC approval for each new brand under existing licence

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.

Market opportunity. no AGCC-published GGR figure, market-size estimate, or growth-trajectory data located.
  • searched: Alderney eGambling GGR market size estimate
  • searched: AGCC annual report gross gaming yield 2024
  • searched: Alderney online gambling market size report
  • checked: gamblingcontrol.org
Enforcement.enforcement events. no named enforcement action (fine/suspension/revocation) with date located in this pass.
  • searched: Alderney Gambling Control Commission enforcement action fine 2024 2025
  • searched: AGCC licence revocation Alderney
  • searched: AGCC disciplinary action gambling operator
  • checked: gamblingcontrol.org
Player protection. no dedicated AGCC central self-exclusion register or deposit-limit mandate page located.
  • searched: AGCC self-exclusion register Alderney
  • searched: Alderney eGambling deposit limit responsible gambling
  • searched: AGCC responsible gambling technical requirements
  • checked: gamblingcontrol.org
Cost to operate. no headline statutory GGR/turnover tax rate found distinct from the licence-fee schedule.
  • searched: Alderney eGambling tax rate gaming duty
  • searched: AGCC gaming tax Alderney Law 1999
  • searched: Alderney gambling taxation schedule
  • checked: gamblingcontrol.org
Data protection. Bailiwick-level data protection framework and supervisory authority not independently verified this pass.
  • searched: Guernsey Alderney data protection law supervisory authority
  • searched: Bailiwick of Guernsey Data Protection Authority gambling
  • searched: Alderney data protection cross border transfer
  • checked: gamblingcontrol.org

Source register

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