Article 12. General requirements for carrying out activities in the field of gambling business of the Gambling Law

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1. At least thirty gaming tables must be installed in one casino.

2. At least sixty slot machines must be installed in the slot machine room.

3. Each slot machine must comply with the requirements established in relation to the relevant gambling equipment by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of technical regulation.

4. The payment of winnings to participants of gambling and (or) betting is made by the gambling business organizer on the basis of the presented identity document, in the amount and within the time limits stipulated by the rules of gambling and (or) betting, but no later than three calendar days from the moment of summarizing the results of this gambling and (or) betting.

5. It is prohibited to install slot machines or their parts in walls, windows and doorways in casinos and slot machine halls.

6. The percentage of winnings technologically embedded in the slot machine must be at least ninety-five percent.

7. Cash desks and gaming venues of gambling establishments, bookmakers and sweepstakes must be equipped with video recording systems that ensure the storage of recorded information for at least seven days and record the actions of all participants in gambling and (or) betting.

7-1. The cash desks of betting shops and/or betting shops must be equipped with a metal door, armored glass and an alarm system connected to a centralized console of a private security organization or a duty station of a territorial body of internal affairs.

8. If there is insufficient money in the cash register or in the accounts of the gambling business organizer to pay winnings to the participant of the gambling and (or) betting, the gambling business organizer is obliged to use the mandatory reserves for the missing amount, taking into account the provisions established by Article 14 of this Law.

9. The gambling business organizer, who carries out the activities of a bookmaker's office or a sweepstake, is obliged, through a hardware and software package and equipment for organizing and conducting bets, to carry out and ensure reception, unified accounting of the total amount of bets placed, processing of bets of betting participants and payout of winnings.

10. The gambling business organizer, who carries out the activities of the bookmaker's office, independently determines the events on the outcome of which the bet is concluded.

11. The organizer of the gambling business, who carries out the activities of the sweepstakes, accepts bets on upcoming real events taking place within the framework of equestrian sports competitions (horse races, races) and (or) dog races.

12. The bookmaker's office or the totalizator accepts bets through the appropriate bookmaker's office or the totalizator's cash desk and (or) the electronic cash desk of the bookmaker's office or the totalizator. The bookmaker's office or the totalizator is not entitled to accept bets at the expense of money that is not accounted for in the unified accounting system.

13. Gambling business organizers are required to comply with the requirements established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

14. The gambling business organizer, who carries out the activities of a bookmaker's office, accepts bets based on coefficients calculated by the hardware and software complex, and only for upcoming real events taking place within the framework of sports competitions held by accredited sports federations or under the auspices of international sports organizations, federations, and committees.

15. Bookmakers and sweepstakes must be equipped with a hardware and software package. The gambling business organizer, who carries out the activities of a bookmaker's office or a totalizator, is obliged to register the participant of the bet before accepting the bet using a hardware and software package with the input of data allowing to establish the identity of the participant.

15-1. The gambling business organizer places a warning about the risks and harms of participating in gambling and (or) betting in a prominent place in the gambling establishment, the premises of the bookmaker's office or the totalizator, the cash desks of the casino and the slot machine room, the cash desks and electronic cash desks of the bookmaker's office and (or) the totalizator, on its own Internet resources (if any)..

A warning about the risks and harms of participating in gambling and/or betting should contain the expected negative consequences.

The text and sketches of the warning about the risks and harms of gambling and/or betting are approved by the authorized body.

16. An organizer of a gambling business may not act as (directly and (or) indirectly own, use, dispose of, and (or) manage shares (stakes in the authorized capital) of a legal entity):

1) a legal entity, the founder, participant or beneficial owner of which is a person who has an outstanding or outstanding criminal record for a crime committed in the field of economic activity or for intentional crimes of moderate severity, serious crimes, especially serious crimes, including in the presence of a judicial act that has entered into force against him on the application of criminal punishment in in the form of deprivation of the right to hold the position of a senior employee of a financial institution, of a banking and (or) insurance holding company and be a major participant (major shareholder) of a financial institution for life;

2) a legal entity, the founder, participant or beneficial owner of which is a person who was the founder, participant or beneficial owner of a legal entity that has a tax debt or is declared bankrupt.

3) a legal entity, the founder, participant or beneficial owner of which is a person with close relatives, whose actions contributed to the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

17. The person specified in subparagraph 1) of paragraph 16 of this article may not be appointed to a senior position in a gambling establishment.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 12, 2007 No. 219.

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