The Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority, on Friday, came out with new regulations for online real money games in the State making the use of such platforms more stringent and tightly regulated.
The new rules completely prohibit minors from playing online real money games and make Know Your Customer (KYC) verification mandatory even for creating accounts on such gaming platforms. The login to the platforms is to be monitored by Aadhar authentication followed by sending an OTP to mobile numbers, the regulations said.
Online real money games, as per the official regulations, refers to “any online game where a user makes a deposit in cash or kind with an expectation of earning winnings from that deposit.”
Among other mandates, online gaming platforms must display pop-up caution messages when a player plays continuously for more than one hour. “All online game providers shall necessarily provide facilities to fix daily, weekly and monthly monetary limits for each player,” it adds. Caution messages noting that “Online Gaming is Addictive in Nature” will be displayed prominently on sites.
Further, it also sets restricted hours for the gaming platforms noting that logging into the games should not be allowed between 12 midnight to 5:00 am.
The rules shall come into effect once published in the official Gazette.