Prohibition

Chapter III contains the central prohibitions that underpin the statute’s consumer-protection posture. Section 5 outlaws offering, aiding, abetting, inducing or otherwise engaging in the offering of any online money game or online money-gaming service. Section 6 bans advertisements across any media—including electronic means of communication—that directly or indirectly promote online money games or any activity encouraging online money gaming. Section 7 restricts the financial and payment rails: no bank, financial institution or any person facilitating financial transactions or authorization of funds may engage in, permit, aid, abet, induce or otherwise facilitate any transfer toward payment for an online money-gaming service. These provisions, read with the broad definition in Chapter I, shut down supply, promotion and payments for money gaming nationwide, and set up the enforcement and penalty framework developed in Chapters IV and V.