Legal casino gambling age in Jersey
Jersey, a self-governing Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands, regulates gambling through a licensing system run by an independent statutory regulator, the Jersey Gambling Commission (JGC). The island has no land-based casino: the States of Jersey voted against legislation for casino gambling in 2005, and that position has not been reversed. Lawful gambling on the island consists mainly of licensed bookmakers, gaming machines in betting offices, pubs and clubs, charitable lotteries and the Channel Islands Lottery, which the governments of Jersey and Guernsey run jointly. Jersey also licenses a small number of remote (online) gambling businesses that operate from servers on the island.
Key points
- Gambling is governed by the Gambling (Jersey) Law 2012, in force since 1 January 2013, and the Gambling Commission (Jersey) Law 2010, which created the JGC.
- Providing a commercial gambling service in or from within Jersey without a JGC licence is an offence punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine.
- The JGC licenses remote gambling operators (business to consumer), platform providers (business to business), hosting providers, software designers, testing houses and disaster-recovery services. At the end of 2025 there were three licensed remote gambling operators.
- The law is directed at providers and advertisers, not at players. The JGC acknowledges that many residents gamble online with operators licensed elsewhere.
- Advertising gambling services that are not licensed in Jersey is an offence carrying up to two years’ imprisonment and a fine.
- Self-exclusion is available at local betting premises, and the JGC funds online support for Jersey residents through its Social Responsibility Fund.
Last reviewed: 13 October 2026.
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Historical development
Before 2013, gambling in Jersey was regulated under older legislation dating from the 1960s. In 2004 the Economic Development Committee proposed a modernisation of the island’s gambling legislation (P.62/2004). Part of that proposition asked the States to agree that legislation should be brought forward to permit casino gambling. On 2 March 2005 the States rejected that paragraph by 11 votes to 36 (States Minutes, 2 March 2005). In a written answer tabled on 21 February 2012, the Minister for Economic Development described the States’ decision on P.62/2004 as “quite emphatically opposed to the licensing of a terrestrial casino”, said he had not sought to change it, and confirmed that no application for a casino had been made (written question on a casino in Jersey, 2012). No casino has been licensed since. The Channel Islands Lottery dates from 1975, when the earlier Jersey and Guernsey lotteries were merged (Channel Islands Lottery overview).
Jersey’s first remote gambling legislation was narrow. The Gambling (Remote Gambling Disaster Recovery) (Jersey) Regulations 2008 (R&O.5/2008), which came into force on 22 January 2008, allowed an operator licensed elsewhere to run its gambling from Jersey only during an “activating disaster”, such as major damage to its servers at home. The annual licence fee was £5,000 (revised edition of the 2008 Regulations, as at 1 January 2009). An amendment that took effect on 17 March 2011 (R&O.24/2011) renamed the instrument the Gambling (Remote Gambling) (Jersey) Regulations 2008 and extended it to general remote gambling licences, which lasted three years (Jersey Legal Information Board, superseded revised edition). By July 2011 only one formal application for a remote licence had been received (States Assembly, oral question, July 2011).
Meanwhile the Gambling Commission (Jersey) Law 2010 came into force on 3 September 2010 and transferred licensing, registration and regulation to the new JGC (JGC, About the Commission). The Gambling (Jersey) Law 2012 then replaced the earlier legislation with a single framework covering land-based and remote gambling. It took effect on 1 January 2013, according to a guide by the Jersey law firm Carey Olsen.
Legal framework
As a Crown Dependency, Jersey makes its own laws through the States Assembly, and UK gambling legislation does not apply there. The JGC identifies two main laws and two key sets of regulations:
- the Gambling Commission (Jersey) Law 2010, which establishes the Commission and governs its work;
- the Gambling (Jersey) Law 2012, which sets out the substantive rules on gambling;
- the Gambling (Ancillary Services and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey) Regulations 2012, which deal with services supplied to gambling businesses; and
- the Gambling (Charitable and Membership Gambling Services) (Jersey) Regulations 2012, which deal with charitable, social and membership gambling.
The 2012 Law defines “gambling” to include all forms of betting, gaming and lotteries. A “commercial gambling service” is a gambling service provided by way of business to a person who gambles otherwise than by way of business. Under Article 8(1), no one may, without a licence, provide a commercial gambling service “in or from within Jersey”, or hold themselves out as doing so. A company incorporated in Jersey may not provide such a service anywhere in the world without a Jersey licence. The penalty for breach is up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine (Article 8(3)).
According to the law firm Collas Crill, Article 8 of the Ancillary Services Regulations treats a remote service as provided from Jersey where certain equipment on the island controls the outcome of the gambling or the website or channel used. The JGC’s guidance, as summarised by the firm, is that a remote provider must either be incorporated in Jersey or genuinely operate its gambling from a server on the island.
The Law also contains important exclusions. Private gambling, meaning gambling that does not take place in public, is not advertised, involves no gambling service and is conducted otherwise than by way of business, falls outside the licensing provisions. Public lotteries are dealt with in Article 27, which preserves the Gambling (Channel Islands Lottery) (Jersey) Regulations 1975 and the related 1997 Order. The Commission can enforce the Law through information notices, warrants, directions, injunctions and civil financial penalties of up to the higher of £5,000 or twice the gross win attributable to a contravention (Article 39).
Regulator and licensing model
The JGC is responsible for “the regulation of gambling in the Island”, covering all commercial and charitable gambling with the exception of the Channel Islands Lottery, which the Government of Jersey administers directly. It has a chair and up to four members, appointed on the recommendation of the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development (JGC, About the Commission). The Commission is funded by licence fees; its 2025 Annual Report and Accounts states that it “receives no public funding whatsoever”. Its 2025 turnover was £827,919. The same report describes the Commission as taking “a neutral approach to the sector” and says it “will not seek new business or promote Jersey as a jurisdiction”.
Jersey operates a licensing model: a regime in which private businesses may offer gambling if they obtain a licence and meet ongoing conditions, rather than a state monopoly or a prohibition. The JGC’s licence categories fall into three groups:
- Land-based commercial gambling: Class I and Class II bookmakers, race tracks, gambling machine operators, machine suppliers, thrift clubs, promotional prize lotteries, Crown and Anchor (a traditional dice game) and amusements with prizes.
- Remote gambling: a Remote Gambling Operators Licence for business-to-consumer (B2C) gambling from Jersey; permits for platform providers offering business-to-business (B2B) hardware or software, hosting providers and software designers; approval of testing houses; a Personal Gambling Licence for individuals employed by trust company businesses who act as directors of gambling operators; and licences for disaster recovery and for mirroring or load balancing services (JGC, Remote Gambling).
- Social and charitable gambling: registrations, permits and private or membership arrangements for local organisations.
The JGC’s Policy Statement for Remote Gambling (October 2025) states that a remote operator’s licence lasts five years and that the Commission “does not grant remote gambling licences to brass plate companies”: licensees must keep a genuine presence on the island. Disaster-recovery and mirroring licences are available only to operators licensed in a jurisdiction that has a functioning memorandum of understanding with the JGC; a mirroring licensee must keep at least one server in Jersey. According to the JGC’s Remote Gambling page, applicants whose offering includes casino-style games must also register with the Jersey Financial Services Commission under the Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies) (Jersey) Law 2008.
The JGC’s 2026 fees notice, revised in October 2025 in line with Jersey’s retail prices index, sets the following charges:
| Licence | Application fee | Annual licence fee |
|---|---|---|
| Remote Gambling Operators Licence | £7,170 (a further £7,170 may be requested) | £23,895 where gross gaming revenue is below £1 million; £53,760 at £1 million or above |
| Disaster Recovery Licence | £1,025 (a further £1,025 may be requested) | £5,130 |
| Mirroring and Load Balancing Services Licence | £600 (a further £600 may be requested) | £8,365 |
Gross gaming revenue (GGR) means stakes minus winnings paid. The Commission publishes a list of licensees grouped by category. According to the 2025 Annual Report, at 31 December 2025 there were three remote gambling operators, three platform providers, two hosting providers and one software designer. On the land-based side there were three Class I bookmakers operating 15 licensed betting offices (18 in 2024), with 59 gaming machines, and 46 premises licensed for Category 3 gambling machines in pubs, restaurants and clubs. The fall followed a major UK bookmaker’s exit in March 2025. No disaster recovery or mirroring licences were listed when the register was consulted in October 2026.
Online gambling and enforcement
Online gambling is lawful in Jersey when it is provided under a JGC licence. The Jersey licence regulates the operator wherever its customers are; it does not by itself give access to other markets, which depend on each destination’s laws. Licensed remote operators must meet the JGC’s Code of Practice for Responsible Gambling for Remote Operators (revised October 2025) and technical standards, and games must be independently tested.
Jersey’s relationship with the British market has changed over time. Under the UK Gambling Act 2005, operators based in a “white list” of approved jurisdictions could advertise in Great Britain without a UK licence. The explanatory notes to the UK Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 name the white-listed places as the Isle of Man, Tasmania, Alderney and Antigua and Barbuda, with Gibraltar treated as part of the European Economic Area; Jersey was not among them. Carey Olsen records that Jersey’s pending application was suspended in 2009 and that the white list remained closed pending further assessment. The 2014 Act abolished the white list and introduced point-of-consumption licensing, under which any operator serving consumers in Great Britain needs a licence from the UK Gambling Commission.
Jersey does not maintain a blocklist of gambling websites and does not require internet service providers or banks to block offshore gambling; no such measures were found in the legislation or the Commission’s published material. The main control on offshore operators is the advertising offence. Under Article 29 of the 2012 Law, an advertisement issued outside Jersey is treated as issued in Jersey if it is directed at people on the island, unless an exception applies, such as a publication circulating principally elsewhere. The JGC’s advertising policy states that an approved company’s gambling interests off the island “may not be advertised in Jersey”, that unsolicited advertising aimed at residents is prohibited, and that the offence carries up to two years’ imprisonment and a fine. Licensed advertisers must not target under-18s or use media whose audience is more than 25% under 18.
The Commission’s 2025 Annual Report refers to “leakage caused by locals choosing to gamble online with firms licensed elsewhere”, which “reduces the economic benefit to the Island”, and says there is “little hope that this will change in any meaningful way”.
Position of players
The 2012 Law places its licensing obligations and principal offences on those who provide, facilitate or advertise gambling. On the provisions reviewed for this guide, it does not make it an offence for an adult in Jersey to gamble with an online operator licensed in another jurisdiction, and no prosecutions of individual players were found. The one offence aimed at participants, in Article 28(6), concerns engaging in prohibited or unregistered non-commercial gambling on the island without reasonable excuse; it does not address online play with offshore operators. The minimum age for gambling with licensed operators is 18.
A resident who uses an operator licensed elsewhere is protected only by that operator’s home regulator. The JGC has no power to resolve complaints against such businesses, and protections designed for other markets may not cover island residents. For example, the JGC notes that residents can register with the UK’s GAMSTOP self-exclusion scheme, but warns that “UK licensees are not obligated to include Jersey residents who self-exclude” (2025 Annual Report).
Taxation
According to a guide by Carey Olsen, Jersey charges 0% gaming duty and Jersey companies are generally subject to corporation tax at 0%; no official Revenue Jersey statement confirming these rates for gambling businesses was found during research for this guide. Licensed operators do pay the JGC’s annual licence fees.
Jersey charges a goods and services tax (GST) at a standard rate of 5%. The Goods and Services Tax (Jersey) Law 2007 contains specific valuation rules for supplies made through gaming machines (Schedule 4, paragraph 16). Proceeds from the Channel Islands Lottery are distributed to good causes rather than taxed: for 2026 the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development proposed allocating £1,130,000 of Jersey’s share, with 50% to the Association of Jersey Charities, 30% to the Jersey Community Foundation and 20% to Jersey Sport (P.58/2026). No official statement on the income tax treatment of individual gambling winnings was found during research for this guide, and players with questions should consult Revenue Jersey.
Consumer protection and responsible gambling
The JGC’s remote gambling code sets out detailed protections. Operators must verify the age and identity of every new player, and bets placed by a minor must be voided. Players must be offered a deposit limit at their first deposit, and limits can be relaxed only after 24 hours’ notice. Operators must offer time-outs of up to one month, should offer self-exclusion for periods of not less than six months up to at least five years, and should not send marketing material to anyone who has self-excluded unless they ask for it. The code also requires reality checks, a free dispute resolution system and at least three seconds between plays.
For land-based gambling, every bookmaker must comply with the Commission’s self-exclusion policy, and refusing to honour a request is a breach of licence (JGC, Get Help and Self-Exclusion). The Multi Operator Self-Exclusion Scheme (MOSES) allows a person to exclude from several betting shops with one telephone call. In 2025 the JGC recorded 232 terrestrial self-exclusions in place (224 in 2024), under 127 individual self-exclusion agreements, 39 unsuccessful breaches and two reported cases in which a self-excluded person managed to gamble (2025 Annual Report).
Jersey has no national prevalence survey of gambling harm. A 2024 paper by the charity Policy Centre Jersey estimated, by applying UK rates, that around 500 islanders may experience problem gambling and nearly 4,000 gamble at elevated risk. It noted that there was no dedicated treatment service on the island and recommended a local study followed by a strategy. The JGC has also urged the government to establish a publicly promoted treatment route, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the minister in March 2024 to formalise information exchange (JGC 2024 Annual Report, R.120/2025).
The Commission’s Social Responsibility Fund stood at £160,218 at the end of 2025 (£150,064 in 2024). It contributes to the costs of the online service Gambling Therapy for Jersey residents and to public information (2025 Annual Report). The support services listed by the JGC are:
- the National Gambling Helpline, freephone 0808 802 0133;
- Gambling Therapy, a free and anonymous text-based service with live one-to-one support;
- the Gordon Moody charity, which offers residential treatment (not free to Jersey residents, though applications are accepted);
- the Jersey branch of Gamblers Anonymous and online meetings run by Gamblers, Family and Friends in Recovery; and
- Citizens Advice Jersey for debt advice.
General guidance is available in our responsible gambling guide.
Recent and upcoming developments
- Proposed alcohol remit dropped (2025–2026). The draft Alcohol Licensing (Jersey) Law (P.112/2025), lodged on 8 December 2025, would have moved alcohol licensing to the JGC and renamed it the Alcohol and Gambling Commission (Government of Jersey, December 2025). On 10 March 2026 the States adopted a ministerial amendment moving that oversight to the government’s Regulation Directorate instead, and approved the amended Law by 44 votes to 2 (States Assembly, meeting summary, 10 March 2026). The JGC’s 2025 Annual Report says the related plans for a new law and new enforcement powers are “at best on hold”.
- Remote licensing activity. Two remote operators decided in 2024 to surrender their licences (the surrenders were still pending at the end of that year), and one new remote operator was licensed in 2025, leaving three at the end of 2025. The JGC revised its remote gambling policy, code and fees in October 2025.
- Anti-money laundering assessment. The Council of Europe’s MONEYVAL evaluation of Jersey, published in July 2024, recognised the strength of remote gambling supervision while making recommendations for improvement (JGC 2024 Annual Report).
- Channel Islands Lottery review. Total proceeds for distribution in Jersey fell from £1,523,936 in 2021 to a proposed £857,410 for 2025, according to the States scrutiny panel. Channel Islands sales were £24 million in 2025, down 2.1% (Guernsey Press, June 2026). In April 2026 the lottery began a tender for new suppliers because existing game arrangements end in 2027; a new format, with the UK National Lottery cited as one model, is being considered alongside the instant-win tickets (Bailiwick Express, 28 April 2026).
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Related country guides
- Guernsey and Alderney gambling guide
- UK gambling guide
- Isle of Man gambling guide
- France gambling guide
- Ireland gambling guide
Sources and further reading
- Jersey Legal Information Board, Gambling (Jersey) Law 2012 (consolidated version in force from 2 October 2026; accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Legal Information Board, Gambling Commission (Jersey) Law 2010 (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Legal Information Board, Gambling (Remote Gambling) (Jersey) Regulations 2008, superseded revised edition as at 1 January 2012 (accessed 13 October 2026).
- States Assembly, Gambling (Remote Gambling Disaster Recovery) (Jersey) Regulations 2008, revised edition as at 1 January 2009 (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Legal Information Board, Goods and Services Tax (Jersey) Law 2007 (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, About the Commission and Legislation (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Remote Gambling (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Policy Statement for Remote Gambling (October 2025).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Remote Gambling Licence: Operators Report on Fees 2026 (2025).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Code of Practice for Responsible Gambling for Remote Operators (revised October 2025).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Policy Statement for Advertising Commercial or Charitable Gambling (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, List of Licensees (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Get Help and Self-Exclusion (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Jersey Gambling Commission, Annual Report and Accounts 2025 (2026).
- States Assembly, Jersey Gambling Commission Annual Report and Accounts 2024 (R.120/2025) (2025).
- States Assembly, States Minutes, 2 March 2005 (2005).
- States Assembly, Written question: a casino in Jersey (2012); Oral question: number of online gaming licences issued (2011).
- States Assembly, Channel Islands Lottery: Distribution of Proceeds 2026 (P.58/2026) (2026) and P.51/2025: Comments of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel (2025).
- Government of Jersey, Minister lodges draft Alcohol Licensing (Jersey) Law (8 December 2025); States Assembly, States meeting summary, 10 March 2026 (2026).
- legislation.gov.uk, Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014: Explanatory Notes (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Carey Olsen, A Guide to Jersey for eGaming Companies (undated; accessed 13 October 2026); Collas Crill, Remote gambling in Jersey: when do you need a licence? (25 January 2018).
- Policy Centre Jersey, Problem Gambling in Jersey (April 2024, updated November 2024).
- Bailiwick Express, Lottery changes ahead (28 April 2026); Guernsey Press, CI Lottery sales dropped last year after a decade of growth (9 June 2026).
- Wikipedia, Channel Islands Lottery (accessed 13 October 2026).
