By José Carlos Matias
jcmatias@macaubusiness.com
Gaming la O 20 JANUARY 2021
Gaming law
ther characteristics of the Hong Kong gambler, which the renowned investigator also collected, is that even though Macau has increaseung Hee Park, from MUST. To some extent the sketches of a first draft of
this four-volume undertaking date back to 2001 and 2002, when António Lobo Vilela was a senior legal advisor, both to the Commission of the first public tender to grant casino concessions and of the think-tank in charge of (co)drafting the new gaming law. “I believe it all started with the notes I took when we were
drafting the gaming law. Since then, I have been collecting information related to the gaming law as a whole and the different articles,” Mr Lobo Vilela told Macau Business. He regards this project as a work-in-progress, as over the
years he has been adding and updating contents resulting in four volumes published recently, and to which Macau Business had exclusive access. It was some five to six years ago when the veteran legal expert decided to move ahead with this endeavor when Mr Lobo Vilela started assembling all the notes and information to publish this work. “Having assembled this huge amount of information, I thought it would be useful to share it with the public.” The four-volume book was set to be published earlier this
year, but some problems related to the work’s final revision and pagination delayed the process. That is why the prefaces are dated May 2020.
Veteran gaming legal expert António Lobo Vilela has published four volumes of “Macau Gaming Law: Annotated with Comments”, an endeavor that arrives as the city’s core industry sits at a critical juncture. Macau Business had exclusive access to this forthcoming work that sheds light onto two decades of a once- in-a-lifetime process
unfolded
“Having assembled this huge amount of information, I thought it would be useful to share it with the public”
Jorge Costa Oliveira, under whom Lobo Vilela worked in the public tender commission, the think tank in charge of drafting the gaming law, as well as in the Macau Gaming Commission, authors the Preface to Volume I, where he underlines the breadth of this undertaking. “This publication is a massive repository of everything that has been produced on gaming that may be relevant for the interpretation and the understanding of the norms and precepts that are contained in this legal regulatory framework. Thus, it is quite comprehensive and as complete as one can imagine.” The usefulness of this work is also emphasised by Anthony Cabot, Distinguished Fellow of Gaming Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who penned the Preface to Volume III, stating that the book “offers regulators, industry members, practitioners, judges, and the public with a complete and easily accessible roadmap to all Macau gaming laws.” The same idea is conveyed by the author of the Preface to Volume II, a former Las Vegas Sands top executive, to whom this “Treatise is a great tool.” As Macau cemented its position as the world’s top casino
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