Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025
Bare Act · 2025
An Act to promote and regulate the online gaming sector including e-sports, educational games and social gaming; to provide for the appointment of an Authority for coordinated policy support, strategic development and regulatory oversight of the sector; to prohibit the offering, operation, facilitation, advertisement, * [promotion] and participation in online money games through any computer resource, mobile device or the internet, particularly where such activities operate across State borders or from foreign jurisdictions; to protect individuals, especially youth and vulnerable populations, from the adverse social, economic, psychological and privacy-related impacts of such games; to ensure the responsible use of digital technologies; to maintain public order and protect public health; to safeguard the integrity of financial systems and the security and sovereignty of the State; to establish a uniform national-level legal framework in the public interest; and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- Act number
- 32 of 2025
- Enacted
- 22 August 2025
- Contents
- 20 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Development And Recognition
- Section 3 – Recognition and promotion of e-sport
- Section 4 – Recognition and development of online social games
Chapter III — Prohibition
- Section 5 – Prohibition of online money game and online money gaming service
- Section 6 – Prohibition of advertisement related to online money game (preview)
- Section 7 – Prohibition of transfer of fund (preview)
Chapter IV — Authority On Online Gaming
Chapter V — Offences And Penalties
- Section 9 – Penalty for contravention (preview)
- Section 10 – Cognizance of offences (preview)
- Section 11 – Offences by companies (preview)
- Section 12 – Non-compliance by any other person (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 13 – Compliance with direction of Central Government (preview)
- Section 14 – Blocking of online money gaming service (preview)
- Section 15 – Power to investigate offences (preview)
- Section 16 – Search and seizure of property (preview)
- Section 17 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 18 – Act not in derogation of any other law (preview)
- Section 19 – Power of Central Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 20 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)