Remote Gambling Act 2014 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Offences
13. Unlawful invitation, etc., to young person to gamble remotely
Feedback & supportA person who invites, or causes or permits, a young person to gamble in Singapore by means of remote communication shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less than $20,000 and not more than $300,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 years or to both.
A reference in subsection (1) to inviting a young person to gamble by means of remote communication includes, in particular, a reference to —
remote communication
“remote communication” means communication through —(a)the Internet;(b)telephone;(c)television or radio; or(d)any other kind of electronic or other technology for facilitating communication,but does not include any specific system or method of communication that the Minister declares, by order in the Gazette, as not to be treated as remote communication for the purposes of this Act.(3) In this Act, a “remote gambling service” means a gambling service provided to customers for them to participate in gambling by the use of remote communication.(4) In this Act, a person provides a remote gambling service where the person does any of the following in the course of carrying on a business:(a)provides facilities for remote gambling by others in accordance with arrangements made by the person;(b)organises, manages or supervises remote gambling by others in accordance with arrangements made by the person, which may include inviting others to gamble, or placing, making, receiving or accepting bets, using remote communication in accordance with those arrangements;(c)distributes a prize offered in remote gambling in accordance with arrangements made by the person;(d)distributes money or money’s worth paid or staked by others in remote gambling in accordance with arrangements made by the person;(e)facilitates participation by others in remote gambling in accordance with arrangements made by the person (including by allowing others to participate in such remote gambling);(f)uses a document, device, piece of equipment or other thing for the purposes of enabling remote gambling by others to take place in accordance with arrangements made by the person.(5) For the purposes of this Act, a person provides facilities for remote gambling if the person makes facilities for remote communication available for use, being facilities which are adapted or presented in such a way as to facilitate, or to draw attention to the possibility of, their use for gambling, and the nature, adaptation or presentation of the facilities is such that —(a)they cannot reasonably be expected to be used for purposes other than gambling; or(b)they are intended to be used wholly or partly for gambling.(6) For the purposes of subsection (4) or (5), it does not matter whether facilities for remote gambling are provided —(a)only partly by means of remote communication; or(b)outside Singapore or partly inside and partly outside Singapore.(7) However, a person does not provide a remote gambling service or provide facilities for remote gambling, and is not an agent referred to in section 9(1) or (2), merely because the person provides, or operates facilities for network access, or provides services relating to, or provides connections for, the transmission or routing of data.(8) For the purposes of this Act —(a)a remote gambling service has a foreign‑customer link if none of the customers is physically present in Singapore, whether or not an individual who is physically present in Singapore is capable of becoming a customer of that service; and(b)a remote gambling service has a Singapore‑customer link if any of the customers is physically present in Singapore,and in determining for the purposes of paragraph (a) whether an individual who is physically present in Singapore is capable of becoming a customer of a service, it is to be assumed that the individual will not falsify or conceal the individual’s identity or location.(9) For the purposes of this Act, a remote gambling service is a Singapore‑based remote gambling service if —(a)the service is provided in the course of carrying on a business in Singapore;(b)the central management and control of the service is in Singapore; or(c)where the service is provided to customers using an Internet carriage service, all or any of the relevant Internet content is hosted in Singapore.(10) In subsection (9)(c),
intentionally sending to the young person any remote gambling service advertisement; or
intentionally bringing to the attention of the young person information about remote gambling with a view to encouraging the young person to gamble by means of remote communication.
For the purposes of subsection (1), it does not matter whether or not the gambling actually carried out by a young person —
gambling
“gambling” means all or any of the following:(a)betting;(b)gaming;(c)participating in a lottery;
is the same as that in the invitation; or
is in the manner so invited,provided that the gambling actually carried out is a probable consequence of that invitation.
For the purposes of subsection (1), it also does not matter whether the gambling done or to be done by a young person pursuant to an invitation is only partly by means of remote communication or is partly inside and partly outside Singapore.
An offence under subsection (1) is an arrestable offence.