Planned government legislation to curb gambling

The Czech Finance Ministry is drafting legislation to curb gambling, the daily Hospodářské noviny reports. The bill should introduce the limit of one gambling bar per 1,000 inhabitants, and will only allow casinos in towns of 40,000 or more inhabitants. The legislation will also ban gambling bars near schools, public offices, playgrounds and hospitals, and in historic urban reserves, and will require staff at gambling bars to check whether their clients are not welfare recipients. The draft legislation should be discussed by the government until the end of the year, and enter into force in January 2016.

Author: Jan Richter