The Gambling Group’s Strategic direction 2020-2023 sets out to ‘Deliver community wellbeing through reducing gambling-related harms’. There is potential for tension between some of these purposes, therefore the Department’s decision-making must balance the need to minimise harm from gambling against community benefit from gambling proceeds. It undertakes gambling licensing, compliance and enforcement functions in order to achieve the purposes of the Gambling Act 2003 (the Gambling Act).
The Department is the primary regulator of gambling in New Zealand.
Several agencies have regulatory responsibilities to ensure the purposes of the Gambling Act are met – that communities benefit from gambling proceeds while gambling harm is minimised.
