The UK Gambling Commission has announced that the implementation deadline for the second phase of the new deposit limit regulations has been postponed from June 30 to September 30, giving licensed operators an additional three months to meet new technical and compliance requirements. This decision stems from feedback from multiple operators needing more time to adapt to the revised Remote Technical Standards (RTS). The PASA official website noted that the RTS was initially revised in October 2025, aimed at introducing customer self-management tools to promote safer gambling behavior, while the second phase was originally intended to introduce stricter and more specific deposit limit rules.
The new regulations require clearer "Deposit Limit" exclusive use
From the new deadline, licensed remote gambling operators must do the following: 1. Provide customers with gross deposit limits, operators who previously removed this feature must relaunch it; 2. Simplify the label of gross deposit limits to "Deposit Limit", and this name can only be used exclusively for gross deposit limits, not for other purposes; 3. Ensure that the gross deposit limit is at least as prominent as other financial restriction options when displayed. Additionally, the Commission clarified a key issue—only the gross deposit limit is mandatorily required to adopt a fixed time period, to promote consistency across the industry; other types of financial limits can continue to be offered on a rolling or fixed basis. Simply put, when players see the words "Deposit Limit", it will only refer to the gross deposit limit, eliminating any ambiguity. Operators must also synchronize updates to customer communication content, help pages, and compliance reporting processes to ensure terminology uniformity and that the gross deposit option is equally visible in the user operation path.
The first phase has been implemented, the second phase postponed due to compliance complexity
The RTS revision in October 2025 has implemented the first phase measures, including new types of limits, standardization of self-exclusion and cooling-off periods, and requiring new customers to set financial limits at account opening, with reminders to review account and transaction records every six months. Licensees must also provide financial limits in free text format at the account level to help customers set meaningful parameters. Helen Rhodes, Director of Major Policy Projects at the Gambling Commission, emphasized at the time that these changes would bring consistency and clarity to consumers choosing to set deposit limits, while still supporting gambling businesses in offering different forms of limit options. The second phase was supposed to further refine definitions and enhance the prominence of deposit limits to reduce consumer harm and simplify the user experience—this is why its implementation has been postponed to September. The Commission also reminded operators to note that the early version of RTS 12 Appendix released on October 7 contained minor errors and had been temporarily withdrawn, copies downloaded before May 22 should be discarded, and await the corrected version to be reissued.
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