{"id":52208,"date":"2024-05-16T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/slot-machines-to-go-cashless-as-debit-cards-allowed\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:12:50","slug":"slot-machines-to-go-cashless-as-debit-cards-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/slot-machines-to-go-cashless-as-debit-cards-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot machines to go cashless as debit cards allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C851\/production\/_133318215_slotmachinelowerres.png?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Slot machines to go cashless as debit cards allowed\" title=\"Slot machines to go cashless as debit cards allowed\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the proposals, debit card payments will require authentication, such as chip and PIN or biometric verification of the type used for Apple Pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like with cash, there will be a \u00a320 limit on the amount a person can deposit onto a machine in one go, lowered for \u00a32 for low-stake fruit machines, penny falls and crane grabs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government says players should have to wait at least 30 seconds after a payment is approved before depositing money onto a machine, to &#8220;broadly mirror&#8221; time to withdraw cash from an ATM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will also be mandatory limits per session, to be set following a separate consultation by the Gambling Commission, a regulator, triggering a 30-second cooling-off period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite objections from the sector, staff working in pubs will be alerted when mandatory limits are hit, along with voluntary limits set by punters themselves. These will not apply to the lowest-stake machines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes will be made via a type of legislation that comes into force automatically, and can only be blocked if the House of Commons or Lords objects within a 40-day window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However it will only be drafted once the Gambling Commission consultation, to begin in the coming weeks and lasting three months, is complete. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-69021352\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the proposals, debit card payments will require authentication, such as chip and PIN or biometric verification of the type used for Apple Pay. Like with cash, there will be a \u00a320 limit on the amount a person can deposit onto a machine in one go, lowered for \u00a32 for low-stake fruit machines, penny falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C851\/production\/_133318215_slotmachinelowerres.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2914,9534,51994,17275,10054,40874],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52210,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208\/revisions\/52210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}