{"id":15667,"date":"2021-03-10T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15667"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:14:45","slug":"consultation-on-macau-gaming-law-delayed-until-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/consultation-on-macau-gaming-law-delayed-until-september","title":{"rendered":"Consultation on Macau gaming law delayed until September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A public consultation on the amendment of Macau&#8217;s gaming law is likely to be delayed until after legislative elections on September 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The public consultation on Macau&#8217;s gaming laws is expected to be delayed until after <strong>after the legislative election on September 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s chief executive <strong>Ho Iat Seng <\/strong>announced plans for a <strong>public consultation<\/strong> on amendments to <strong>Macau\u2019s gaming law<\/strong> last year. However, the <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-delays-gaming-law-review-due-to-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\">revision of gaming legislation was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Macau\u2019s Legislative Assembly<\/strong> will see <strong>thirty-three seats<\/strong> reshuffled in September, with fourteen seats to be elected directly by citizens, twelve seats indirectly via local functional constituencies and the remaining seven to be appointed by the chief executive after the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s <strong>current casino licences <\/strong>are due to <strong>expire in June 2022<\/strong>, but according to<strong> Lam Kai Kuong<\/strong>, director of the Macao Games and Entertainment Mediators Association, licences <strong>are likely to be extended<\/strong> to avoid a rushed re-tendering process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>See also: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-19-in-first-week-of-march\" target=\"_blank\">Macau GGR up 19 per cent in first week of March<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public consultation on the amendment of Macau&#8217;s gaming law is likely to be delayed until after legislative elections on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The public consultation on Macau's gaming law amendments is anticipated to be delayed until after the September 12 legislative elections, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This delay impacts the timeline for the expiry of current casino licenses in June 2022, with an extension likely to prevent a rushed re-tendering process.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Lam Kai Kuong, Macao Games and Entertainment Mediators Association, Macau\u2019s Legislative Assembly","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"License Extension Impact","query":"What are the potential implications of a short-term license extension on operator investment strategies and the competitive landscape for the subsequent re-tendering process?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Changes","query":"How might the delayed public consultation influence the scope and nature of proposed amendments to Macau's gaming law, particularly concerning B2B\/B2C licensing structures and governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23908,23906],"class_list":["post-15667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15696,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions\/15696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}