What is Licence Register?

A licence register is the regulator's own public list of who holds a licence, under what number, and whether it is still in force. It is the only thing that turns a licence claim into a licence fact. Use it in one direction: start from the number printed in the casino's footer and look it up. Check three things — that the licensee name matches the company named in the footer, that the status reads active, and that the expiry has not passed. A register entry that says "assessment in progress" past its stated term is a real finding, not a formality. Not every regulator publishes one. The UK, Malta, Sweden and the Curaçao Gaming Authority do; several offshore regimes, including newer First Nation frameworks, do not. When there is no register, a licence number is an unverifiable claim, and any review that treats it as proof is overstating what it knows.