{"id":44325,"date":"2022-06-29T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/handover-of-national-lottery-licence-to-allwyn-to-begin-after-suspension-lifted"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:05:38","slug":"handover-of-national-lottery-licence-to-allwyn-to-begin-after-suspension-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/handover-of-national-lottery-licence-to-allwyn-to-begin-after-suspension-lifted","title":{"rendered":"Handover of National Lottery licence to Allwyn to begin after suspension lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camelot has lost its legal bid to prevent the handover of the National Lottery licence to rival Allwyn after the High Court ruled it could go ahead. The Gambling Commission said the court had agreed to lift the suspension preventing it from beginning the licence transfer, which was put in place when Camelot launched legal action in April challenging the decision to pick Allwyn as the firm to run the lottery from 2024. The commission announced in March that it had chosen Allwyn &#8211; which runs lotteries in Austria , Italy and Greece &#8211; for the next licence, ditching Camelot after 30 years. Camelot launched legal proceedings a month later challenging the decision, claiming the Gambling Commission got the decision &#8220;badly wrong&#8221;. We made clear that disrupting the implementation of Allwyn&#8217;s plans would present potentially severe consequences for the National Lottery and good causes Gambling Commission The commission asked the High Court to overturn the automatic stay-put order on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camelot has lost its legal bid to prevent the handover of the National Lottery licence to rival Allwyn after the High Court ruled it could go ahead.The Gambling Commission said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,1],"tags":[5,6,122],"class_list":["post-44325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lottery","category-news","tag-hobbies","tag-lifestyle","tag-lottery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}