Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

Guernsey's licensing architecture rests on two separate statutory bases. Guernsey proper licenses bookmakers and betting offices under the Gambling (Betting) Ordinance, 1973, made under the Gambling (Guernsey) Law, 1971. The Alderney regime is built on the Gambling (Alderney) Law 1999 and the Alderney eGambling Ordinance 2009, with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission as the exclusive regulator for remote eGambling conducted from the Bailiwick. Two licence types anchor entry to that regime: the Category 1 licence, covering business-to-consumer operation including all aspects of player management, and the Category 2 licence, covering business-to-business software and platform supply to the online sector. Both licence types are operational as live authorisation routes. The land-based and online frameworks are administered separately, by the Committee for Home Affairs and the AGCC respectively, and an applicant should expect to engage the correct regulator for the product it intends to offer rather than assume a single licensing contact point covers both regimes.