{"id":26369,"date":"2022-01-19T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T09:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26369"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:08:47","slug":"macau-gaming-concessionaires-to-be-reviewed-every-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-concessionaires-to-be-reviewed-every-three-years","title":{"rendered":"Macau gaming concessionaires to be reviewed every three years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to the gaming law amendment bill, Macau casino operators will be subject to a review by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) every three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- More details continue to emerge about Macau’s proposed amendments to gaming legislation.<\/a> The latest detail picked out from the bill published late last week is that gaming concessionaires will be subject to a review every three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The review will be carried out to establish if casino operators are complying with the obligations<\/strong>\u00a0in their concession contracts. If the review detects a failure, the operator will need to rectify the situation within a deadline set by the Secretary for Economy and Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government-backed bill proposing amendments to Macau’s gaming regulations would retain six concessionaires but end\u00a0the current sub-concession system<\/a>.\u00a0The concession period will be for a maximum of 10 years<\/strong> but can be extended for a further three years in exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new gaming bill would allow\u00a0junket operators<\/a>\u00a0to each provide services to\u00a0only one casino operator<\/strong> and would prohibit junkets from turning to third parties to conduct their business<\/strong> except in \u201csituations deemed necessary by their partners, members of the management body or employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill stipulates that locals must hold 15 per cent of shares in concessionaires instead of 10 per cent as it is currently required. Operators will be required to notify the government of capital allocations, but there are no restrictions as initially feared.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A previous controversial proposal to elect\u00a0\u201cdelegates\u201d to Macau\u2019s gaming concessions<\/strong> appears to have been dropped. Taxes haven\u2019t changed either.\u00a0Macau has an effective tax rate of 39 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0on its concessionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the gaming law amendment bill, Macau casino operators will be subject to a review by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) every three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19390,"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 proposed gaming law amendments introduce a mandatory triennial review for concessionaires by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) to ensure contract compliance, alongside increasing the local shareholding requirement to 15% and restricting junket operators to a single casino. The bill confirms a maximum 10-year concession period, ends the sub-concession system, and drops previous controversial proposals like government delegates and new capital allocation restrictions, while maintaining the 39% tax rate.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","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), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"DICJ Review Criteria","query":"What specific performance indicators and compliance metrics will the DICJ employ during the triennial concessionaire review process?"},{"label":"Sub-concession Impact","query":"How will the termination of the sub-concession system fundamentally alter the operational landscape and competitive dynamics among Macau's six primary concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-26369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369","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=26369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26376,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions\/26376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}