no bank, financial institution or payment gateway provider <\/strong>shall engage in any transaction or authorisation of funds used to pay for online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe ordinance bans games in which a stake is put at risk. A stake is defined as anything that has a monetary equivalent, including virtual points, coins, tokens and other virtual items. Those who violate the new Ordinance may face up to 3 months in jail or a fine of up to Rs5,000<\/strong> or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is to set a date on which the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Ordinance 2022 will take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Tamil Nadu government has enacted the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Ordinance 2022, banning online gambling activities where a stake is risked. While the effective date is pending, the ordinance also establishes the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority to regulate permitted non-gambling online games and issue provider registrations. Financial institutions are prohibited from processing transactions for banned activities, with violations carrying penalties.","focusai_entities":"Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority","focusai_location":"Tamil Nadu, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.8), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Payment Gateways","query":"What specific technical and operational changes are required for payment gateway providers to ensure full compliance with the prohibition on online gambling transactions in Tamil Nadu?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent Analysis","query":"How might the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority's regulatory framework for \"non-gambling online games\" influence future B2B\/B2C licensing and governance frameworks in other Indian states?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-34249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34292,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34249\/revisions\/34292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}