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Written for readers in the United Kingdom
In Great Britain an operator needs a licence from the Gambling Commission, and the operators listed elsewhere on this site do not hold one. This page names none of them and links to none of them: it points to the Commission's own public register instead.
A country that answers the question with a register
Great Britain settled the question this site asks by building a list, and the list is the whole of the answer. An operator that wants British customers holds a licence from the Gambling Commission (the "Commission" throughout this page), the licence sits on a "public register" with the activities it covers and its current status, and the register is open to anybody who wants to look, so that there is no need to take a publisher's word about whether a casino is licensed: the answer is one search away from you, and it costs you a minute.
That is the reason this page carries no list of its own. The operators that this site lists for readers in Canada hold licences from Malta, from Alderney, from Kahnawake, from Curaçao and from the two Canadian provinces that licence online gambling, and not one of them holds a British licence (we checked each of them against the register). A page that named them to a reader here would be an advertisement for unlicensed gambling, which section 330 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes an offence.
The reach of that provision is worth stating plainly, because it is wider than most readers would expect it to be. Under section 333 a person advertises in Great Britain by making data available in a way that is "likely to be accessed by one or more persons in Great Britain", which catches a site published anywhere in the world, and under section 330 the offence is committed for each day that the material stays up (a daily offence, not a single one).
The Commission writes to "advertisers and/or affiliates" (the phrase is its own, and we are in it) rather than only to operators; and it sent two hundred and forty-seven such notices between April 2025 and March 2026 (the figure is its own, from its annual reporting). We take that number as the measure of how seriously the provision is enforced against publishers like us.
Where to look
The Gambling Commission's public register of businesses lists every licensed operator, the activities each licence covers and its current status. It is at gamblingcommission.gov.uk, under "public register", and it is the list that decides the question for a reader in Great Britain.
What the licence conditions actually oblige
A reader who has only ever used licensed British sites may not realise how much of what he takes for granted is a "licence condition" rather than a market norm that any operator would observe. The licensee must apply its own age checks before any "free-to-play" version of a gambling game opens, and a "self-declaration" of a date of birth does not satisfy the requirement. It must route an unresolved complaint to an "alternative dispute resolution" provider that the Commission has approved (the provider is named in the terms, and we would read that line first); and it answers for the third parties that it contracts with to market on its behalf (the provision is SR 1.1.2, on responsibility for third parties).
Since the nineteenth of January 2026 the code also caps bonus "wagering", and we would call it the plainest consumer rule in the book (SR Code 5.1.1, paragraph 3a). A licensee must not "apply wagering requirements, which requires a customer to play through bonus funds, over a maximum of 10 times", and it must not "include more than one type of gambling product (betting, casino, bingo, and lottery) within an incentive", which removes the two devices that made an offer hard to read: a multiplier high enough that the money was never going to come out, and a package that pushed a casino balance through a sports market.
It is that comparison which makes this page worth our writing rather than merely necessary to publish. Nothing in the offshore licences held by the operators that this site lists elsewhere caps a "wagering requirement" at any number at all, and in our view that single difference is the one a player is most likely to feel in his own account.
What is not in force
The Crime and Policing Act 2026 contains a power to suspend internet domain names and IP addresses, in section 170 and Schedule 18. It is not in force: the Act's own text marks the section as prospective, the commencement regulations made so far do not reach it, and the government's factsheet describes the power in terms of fraud, phishing, child sexual abuse material and malware, without mentioning gambling at all.
The age, the help and the self-exclusion
The age is eighteen for every form of licensed gambling in Great Britain (one rule for the whole country, rather than one for each region), which is the arrangement a Canadian reader will find unfamiliar. GAMSTOP is the national "self-exclusion" scheme and covers every operator licensed to offer online gambling to British customers in a single registration, an arrangement that neither of the two Canadian provinces and none of the offshore jurisdictions on this site can match.
The National Gambling Helpline answers free on 0808 8020 133 at any hour; GambleAware publishes the directory of treatment services (the ones the helpline refers a caller to) that sit behind it. A reader who would rather have the Commission's own view of an operator's conduct than ours can read the regulatory decisions that it publishes, which name the operator, describe the failing and state the amount paid (one of the most recent, in October 2026, was nine hundred thousand pounds).
Questions readers ask
Why does this page carry no casino?
Because section 330 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence to advertise unlawful gambling, and section 333 treats data made available in a way likely to be accessed by people in Great Britain as advertising there. A page listing operators without a Commission licence is that advertisement, and the offence is committed for each day of exposure.
Where is the list of licensed operators?
On the Commission's own public register of businesses, which is searchable and gives the licence, the activities it covers and the status. It is the list to use, because it is the only one that is authoritative and the only one that is current.
What does a British licence give me that another licence does not?
A complaints route that ends with an alternative dispute resolution provider the Commission has approved, a self-exclusion scheme that covers every licensed operator at once, and since the nineteenth of January 2026 a cap on bonus wagering of ten times. The operator also answers for the conduct of the affiliates it contracts with.
Is the wagering cap really ten times?
Yes, and the Commission's code says so in those words: a licensee must not "apply wagering requirements, which requires a customer to play through bonus funds, over a maximum of 10 times". The same provision stops an incentive from covering more than one kind of gambling product at a time.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012