{"id":17627,"date":"2021-05-06T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17627"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:45:53","slug":"macau-to-launch-consultation-on-gaming-rights-with-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-launch-consultation-on-gaming-rights-with-legislators","title":{"rendered":"Macau to launch consultation on gaming rights with legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The consultation on gaming rights will be held on May 17 will gather legislators&#8217; opinions about future gaming concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>\u00a0The Macau government<\/strong>\u00a0has announced it will hold a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-launch-consultation-on-gaming-rights-in-second-half\">consultation session<\/a>\u00a0with Legislative Assembly legislators on May 17 to gather their opinions on proposed amendments to Macau\u2019s gaming law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consultation will also<strong>\u00a0include the participation of the 10-member Public Concessions Follow-up Committee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s current casino licences<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>are due to\u00a0<strong>expire in June 2022<\/strong>, but according to the city&#8217;s gaming laws could be extended for up to five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/report-suggests-macau-consider-online-gambling-to-recover-from-covid-19\">consultation<\/a>, some analysts have suggested the upcoming retendering of Macau\u2019s casino licences could be the ideal time to\u00a0<strong>implement changes to the licence criteria<\/strong>\u00a0and to allow online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-reconsider-citys-gaming-licence-criteria\">A research paper<\/a>\u00a0has suggested that Macau should add requirements for operators to invest in <strong>the diversification of Macau\u2019s economy<\/strong>, which is highly dependent on the tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/consultation-on-macau-gaming-law-delayed-until-september\">public consultation<\/a>\u00a0on the amendment of Macau\u2019s gaming law. This is likely to be held\u00a0<strong>after legislative elections on September 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consultation on gaming rights will be held on May 17 will gather legislators&#8217; opinions about future gaming concessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's government will hold a consultation on May 17 with legislators and the Public Concessions Follow-up Committee regarding proposed amendments to the gaming law and future concession renewals. With current casino licences expiring in June 2022, analysts suggest this period is opportune for introducing online gambling and mandating operator investment in economic diversification. A broader public consultation is anticipated post-September 12 legislative elections.","focusai_entities":"Macau government, Legislative Assembly, Public Concessions Follow-up Committee","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Concession Criteria Details?","query":"What specific changes to the concession criteria are being considered beyond economic diversification and the potential introduction of online gambling?"},{"label":"Online Gambling GGR Impact?","query":"How might the introduction of online gambling impact Macau's existing land-based GGR and NGR projections, and what are the anticipated cannibalization rates?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-17627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627","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=17627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}