CasinoIntel

Last reviewed: 8 October 2026. Since 11 June 2024, an Australian licensed online wagering service has been prohibited from accepting payment by credit card, linked credit account or digital currency from a customer physically present in Australia. The rule sits in section 15C of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as amended by the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Credit and Other Measures) Act 2023, and the ACMA enforces it. As at the date above, the statutory review the amending Act requires after two years of operation is due, and this analysis does not assume its outcome. What the federal provision actually does Before the 2023 amendment, section 15C already restricted credit in interactive wagering, but it carried a carve out: payment by way of an independently issued credit card was permitted. The amending Act removed those words from section 15C(1)(b)(ii) and 15C(3)(b) and replaced section 15B with a provision headed "Credit must not be provided to customers of certain in...

Last reviewed: 11 September 2026. As of this date, online casino games, including pokies, blackjack and roulette, remain prohibited under federal law from being offered to a person in Australia, regardless of who is offering them or from where. That prohibition has not changed since the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 came into force, and no current federal proposal would change it. What has changed, repeatedly, is how aggressively the prohibition gets enforced against operators who ignore it. Federal: Section 15 and What Counts as Prohibited The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth) creates its core offence at section 15: a person commits an offence if they intentionally provide a prohibited interactive gambling service with an Australian customer link, carrying maximum penalties in the order of $220,000 per day for an individual and $1.1 million per day for a corporation, following the 2017 penalty increase. Section 5 defines a prohibited interactive gambling service broadly enough to...