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Brazil’s SPA extends betting-ban compliance deadline by 30 days

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Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Bets extended by 30 days the deadline for operators to comply with the prohibition on fixed-odds betting by social welfare beneficiaries. The rules require operators to close accounts held by recipients of Bolsa Família and the Continuous Benefit Payment programmes; the SPA gave no reason for the extension.

Operators have an additional 30 days to close accounts covered by Brazil’s social-benefit betting prohibition.

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Brazilian Congress has not begun review of betting-ban measure after 40 days

Brazil’s Congress has yet to form the joint committee needed to review President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s provisional measure banning betting, more than 40 days after he signed it on 25 September, according to media reports. The measure expires if Congress does not vote within 120 days; the reported deadline is 4 March 2027, with the period suspended during the parliamentary recess. Senators from government and opposition parties have urged congressional president Davi Alcolumbre to move the process forward.

The provisional measure banning betting in Brazil, signed by President Lula on 25 September, has reportedly not yet started moving through the National Congress. The joint committee that must examine the text and issue an opinion before a floor vote has not been installed.

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