Three weeks from now the limit screen on every UK-licensed casino has to do a specific set of things. The revised requirements in RTS 12B — the financial-limits section of the Remote Gambling and Software Technical Standards — take effect on 30 September 2026, according to the Gambling Commission’s upcoming-changes page, last updated 22 May 2026.

This is a second phase, not a first. The Commission says the first phase of improvements to consumer gambling-management tools went into the RTS in October 2025, so limits already exist on licensed sites. What changes now is the definition, the naming, the prominence and the blocking behaviour.

What the door has to do from 30 September

Per the Commission’s own wording, the requirements are:

  • Gross as the floor. As a minimum the gambling system must offer gross deposit limits — a cap on what a customer pays in over a set duration.
  • The word is reserved. Only a limit meeting the gross definition can be referred to as a deposit limit, and a limit meeting that definition must be described to the customer as one.
  • Equal prominence. Where more than one type of limit is available, gross deposit limits must be offered with at least equal prominence to the others.
  • Most restrictive wins. Where a customer sets simultaneous time frames — a daily and a weekly, say — the most restrictive must always apply.
  • It has to actually stop you. Once the limit is reached the system must prevent further deposits until the period restarts or the customer raises it, subject to the standard 24-hour cooling-off period.

The implementation guidance moves too: “spend limits” becomes “stake limits”, loss limits are redefined as stakes placed minus winnings or returns, and a new term, “net deposit limit”, covers deposits minus withdrawals over the period.

What that means at the queue

Two cautions. The date has already moved once — the Commission announced on 26 May 2026 that operators had been granted more time, pushing the second phase from 30 June. And until 30 September a site is not out of compliance for lacking these elements, so a limit screen that looks thin this week is not yet a flag.

From October it is. Open the account, open the limits page, and check the five items above yourself — the same way you would check a suspension against the register rather than take a statement’s word for it. We have not tested any operator’s screen against this list.

18+. UKGC-licensed operators only. If the limits are the reason you are reading this, GambleAware is at begambleaware.org.