From October you can no longer gamble without an identity card

Offices, where sports betting takes place, will have to check the identity of their customers at all times from October onwards. This should make it more difficult to gamble for minors or people on "the list of excluded persons.

Although it is already applied in casinos and arcades, players could still gamble in betting shops and newsagents without identity verification. As of October, this will change, but only for live bookies. This is not yet possible in newsagents, as a legislative amendment is required. This change must be based on a bill by Mr. van Hecke, which will only be discussed in the fall.

Sports betting

Although sports betting is booming, there are still far fewer legal restrictions than on other games of chance. Betting on sports can be done from the age of 18. The boom in sports betting may also be due to the fact that advertising is less restricted than for casinos or sports betting.

Most soccer clubs also have a commercial link with a sports betting provider. For example, this can boast Cricket Satta Bazar online in India. According to Minister of Justice Van Quickenborne, this measure is necessary since there are already more than 37,000 people on the exclusion list voluntarily and the number of people put on the list by third parties is also increasing at an ever-increasing rate.