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Republic of Latvia

Cabinet
Regulation No. 771

Adopted 19 September 2006

Procedure Regarding Processing of Registration of Casino Visitors and of Information to be Included in the Register of Casino Visitors

Issued pursuant to
Section 39, Paragraph six
of the Law on Gambling and Lottery

I. General Provisions

1. These Regulations prescribe:

1.1. the procedure according to which casino visitors are registered;

1.2. the procedure regarding the storage, compiling and passing on of information to be included in the Register of Casino Visitors (hereinafter - information); and

1.3. the technical and organisational measures related to the Register of Casino Visitors for providing of protection of personal data.

2. Visitors of each casino shall be registered in a separate Register of Casino Visitors.

3. A person who during the casino working hours is on the premises where gambling is organised, and the relevant person is not an employee of the relevant casino, shall be considered a casino visitor.

II. Registration of Casino Visitors

4. The identity of the visitors of casino shall be checked and the information into the Register of Casino Visitors shall be entered by an employee of the casino.

5. Casino visitors shall be registered by using a processing system of personal data that is developed in accordance with the security measures of information systems and mandatory technical and organisational measures of protection of processing system of personal data and is registered in the State Data Inspection in accordance with the procedures specified in the Data Protection Law.

6. In order to verify the identity of a casino visitor, the relevant casino employee shall ask him or her to present a personal identification document or a valid travel document (for a third country national). If the casino visitor does not present the relevant document, he or she shall not be registered in the Register of Casino Visitors and shall not be allowed to enter the casino.

7. A card of a casino visitor that has been registered in the processing system of personal data of the casino (Register of Casino Visitors) shall be considered a personal identification document.

8. An employee of a casino has a duty to verify the identity of a person prior to handing of a visitor's card issued by the owner of the casino to a visitor.

9. A casino visitor's card is valid only in the casinos owned by the relevant organiser of gambling that has received a casino license (hereinafter - casino owner).

III. Compiling and Providing of Information to the Lotteries and Gambling Supervisory Inspection

10. On the first Monday of each month the casino owner shall summarise the information included in the Register of Casino Visitors regarding the preceding calendar month and shall provide it to the Lotteries and Gambling Supervisory Inspection (hereinafter - Inspection).

11. Information regarding casino visitors shall be provided by the casino owner to the Inspection as a text file of a particular structure using a technical information medium. Information to the Inspection shall be personally delivered by an employee appointed by the casino owner.

12. The following information shall be provided regarding each casino visitor:

12.1. date and time when the person has entered the casino;

12.2. given name, surname and personal identity number of the casino visitor (regarding the persons to whom a personal identity number is not granted - issuing date, number and name of the issuing authority of a personal identification document);

12.3. the name and address of the casino; and

12.4. the name and registration number of the casino owner.

13. After the regular information has been provided to the Inspection, the casino shall delete the information registered during the previous calendar month and the information included in the Register of Casino Visitors. The casino may use only statistical information for the use thereof (for example, regarding the number of persons who have visited the casino) according to which it is not possible to identify a particular visitor of the casino.

14. The casino owner shall be responsible for the correctness of the information.

IV. Storage of Information

15. Upon receiving the information the Inspection in the presence of submitter shall:

15.1. ascertain whether the necessary information is present in the submitted technical information medium; and

15.2. verify whether the submitted information includes the records referred to in Paragraph 12 of these Regulations.

16. The Inspection shall include the received information in the Centralised Register of Casino Visitors that is formed according to the information system security regulations and the obligatory technical and organisational requirements for the protection of a personal data processing system and is registered in the State Data Inspection in accordance with the procedure specified in Personal Data Protection Law. The controller of Centralised Register of Casino Visitors is the Inspection.

V. Forwarding of Information

17. The Inspection is authorised to provide law-enforcement authorities with information regarding the fact of visiting a casino as well as other authorities specified in the cases referred to in regulatory enactments after a written request thereof.

18. The Inspection shall issue a relevant statement upon receipt of the request.

19. The information in the statement is issued only regarding the person referred to in the statement. In the statement it shall be indicated which casinos and when the relevant person has visited in the period of time indicated by the law-enforcement authorities, or it shall be indicated that during the relevant period of time the person has not visited the casino.

20. The Inspection shall be responsible for not making amendments and corrections of the information from the moment of receipt thereof as well as regarding the prevention of loss (complete or partial) or disposal of information or the leak thereof to a third person.

VI. Closing Provision

21. Cabinet Regulation No. 378 of 20 August 2002 Procedure regarding Processing of Registration of Casino Visitors and of Information to be Included in the Register of Casino Visitors (Latvijas Vēstnesis [the official Gazette of the Government of Latvia], 2002, No. 119) is repealed.

Prime Minister A. Kalvītis

Acting for the Minister for Finance -
Minister for Justice G. Grīnvalds


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Title: Kazino apmeklētāju reģistrācijas un kazino apmeklētāju reģistrā iekļaujamās informācijas apstrādes .. Status:
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Issuer: Cabinet of Ministers Type: regulation Document number: 771Adoption: 19.09.2006.Entry into force: 27.09.2006.Publication: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 153, 26.09.2006.
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