{"id":28180,"date":"2022-03-17T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28180"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:26:01","slug":"junket-collaborators-will-need-to-be-macau-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/junket-collaborators-will-need-to-be-macau-residents","title":{"rendered":"Junket collaborators will need to be Macau residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gaming promoter employees will need to have Macau residency under the new gaming law amendment bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- New details continue to emerge on Macau\u2019s gaming law amendment bill<\/a>. Chan Chak Mo, the head of the Macau assembly’s second standing committee, has now said that all gaming promoter employees, or junket collaborators, will have to be Macau residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junket operators will need to provide casino operators with the names of all employees\u00a0they want to work with. Companies must then submit the names to the city\u2019s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government said casino operators, along with junket operators, would have to share responsibility for the actions of sub-agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chak Mo said: “Some legislators questioned that this could make it more difficult to attract gamblers from abroad, however, the government responded that this matter involves the oversight of the industry. If they are not residents it would be more difficult to oversee.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislator has previously said there will be changes to the legal framework\u00a0concerning junket operations<\/a>. He said a separate law on VIP gaming promoters will be submitted by August 15. A final reading of the gaming law amendment bill is expected by June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaming promoter employees will need to have Macau residency under the new gaming law amendment bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19174,"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 new gaming law amendment bill mandates that all gaming promoter employees must be Macau residents, a measure aimed at enhancing regulatory oversight. Casino operators and junkets will share responsibility for sub-agent actions, with a separate VIP gaming promoters law expected by August 15th.","focusai_entities":"Chan Chak Mo, Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on VIP GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of these new residency requirements and shared liability frameworks on Macau's VIP Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and the operational viability of gaming promoters?"},{"label":"Junket operational challenges?","query":"How will the mandate for Macau residency for all gaming promoter employees affect the operational structure, talent acquisition, and cost base for existing junket operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-28180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28180","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=28180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28190,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28180\/revisions\/28190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}