{"id":22596,"date":"2021-09-14T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22596"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:41:18","slug":"macau-consultation-on-gaming-law-to-open-on-september-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-consultation-on-gaming-law-to-open-on-september-15","title":{"rendered":"Macau consultation on gaming law to open on September 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has confirmed that a public consultation on gaming law will open on September 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.-\u00a0Macau\u2019s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong>\u00a0has confirmed that a\u00a0public consultation<\/a>\u00a0on the revision of the city\u2019s gaming law\u00a0will be launched on September 15<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consultation will run until October 29, and\u00a0authorities expect to finish the amendment of the gaming law<\/strong>\u00a0by the final quarter this year before presenting a draft bill to the Legislative Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau\u2019s current casino licences are due to expire in June 2022<\/strong>. However, the city\u2019s gaming laws state that\u00a0licences can be extended for up to five years<\/strong>\u00a0from the original 20-year term. Authorities say Macau’s gaming law<\/a>\u00a0should be reviewed before a fresh public tender process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau wants to increase mass-market segment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the\u00a0draft version of the city\u2019s second Five-Year Development Plan<\/strong>, authorities expect to increase the mass market’s share of the gaming industry and to oversee the allocation of new live-dealer gaming tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The draft Five-Year Development Plan reveals\u00a0authorities would attempt to “work on the design” of the city’s gaming area<\/strong>, including pushing for an “increase in the proportion” of mass-market play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan doesn’t set goals for casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) growth, but Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd\u00a0<\/strong>expects casino mass GGR in Macau to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has confirmed that a public consultation on gaming law will open on September 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17857,"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 Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has announced a public consultation on the revision of the city's gaming law, commencing September 15 and concluding October 29. This consultation precedes a fresh public tender process for casino licenses, which are set to expire in June 2022. The proposed amendments aim to increase the mass-market segment's share of the gaming industry and oversee new live-dealer table allocations.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.93), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"License Tender Criteria","query":"What specific criteria and conditions are anticipated to be introduced or revised for the upcoming public tender process for Macau's casino licenses, particularly concerning capital commitments, non-gaming investments, and local employment mandates?"},{"label":"Mass Market Strategy","query":"How will the proposed gaming law amendments and the Five-Year Development Plan specifically incentivize and regulate the expansion of the mass-market segment, and what implications does this have for existing VIP room operations and junket partnerships?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-22596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596","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=22596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22633,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions\/22633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}