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Zhanna Khamzina1, Yermek Buribayev1
1Department of Law, Zhetysu University named after I. Zhansugurov, TaldyKorgan, Kazakhstan.
Abstract:
Background Since 2007, Kazakhstan has gradually modernized gambling regulation and in 2023-2024 enacted major reforms, including the creation of a specialized regulator, tighter advertising rules, expanded exclusion regimes, and stronger criminal enforcement. Objective: To assess how this evolving regulatory model aligns with international practice and to derive evidence-informed policy options, treating gambling law as a sociolegal regime for allocating gambling-related risks and fiscal rents. Methods: We use an exploratory sociolegal mixed-methods design that combines doctrinal and comparative legal analysis with a descriptive synthesis of 2019-2024 official statistics on market size, taxation, enforcement, and harm-reduction proxies. Results Kazakhstan's legal gambling market expanded further in 2024, recorded criminal cases for illegal gambling declined, and coverage of debtor-based and voluntary self-exclusion instruments increased sharply, while a large offshore online segment persisted. Situating these trends within a comparative coding of the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy, we show that Kazakhstan combines strict advertising controls, extensive exclusion tools, and advanced enforcement technologies with a comparatively heavy and complex tax mix and a regulator located within a line ministry. Conclusion A public-health-oriented configuration of instruments appears normatively most consistent with the dual goals of channeling demand into the legal market and mitigating gambling-related harm, but the available data remain descriptive and the post-reform observation window is short. We discuss incremental policy options regarding taxation, regulator autonomy, harm reduction, and cross-border enforcement.
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