MACAU BUSINESS
“This new amendment is just in line with the efforts by the authorities in the past few years to improve the legal tools to better oversee the gaming segment and safeguard its healthy development”
Wang Changbing, director of the Centre for Gaming and Tourism Studies, Macau Polytechnic Institute
Strengthening efforts
When the new DICJ bylaw was unveiled by the Executive Council, André Cheong Weng Chon, Secretary for Administration and Justice and spokesperson for the Council, remarked that the amendment is a response to the development of the gaming industry over the years since the liberalisation two decades earlier in terms of the rising number of casinos and gaming tables. The official added the new bylaw has also taken the
future needs of human resources and others into consideration, namely the new round of public tender for gaming licenses as the city’s six concessions and sub-concessions will expire by June 2022. Compared with the 2003 version, the 2021 bylaw
lists out the responsibilities of DICJ in detail. For instance, the new version specifically illustrates DICJ should not only evaluate “the suitability and financial power” of the gaming license holders but also their management entities, junket operators and other entities governed by the local gaming rules. The amendment also validates DICJ could issue guidelines for gaming license holders, their management entities, junket operators and other gaming entities to follow. The 2021 version also particularly adds that DICJ should ‘urge gaming license holders, their management entities and junket operators to cooperate with the policies of the Macau SAR Government and to fulfil social responsibilities’, as well as ‘promote, coordinate and implement promotional activities for responsible gambling’. The rejig also sees three new departments at DICJ — namely, Investigation Department, Facility and Information Department, and Law and License Department — while the two existing departments — Games of Fortune Inspection Department and Mutual Betting Inspection Department — will be combined into Gaming Inspection Department. Professor Wang of MPI remarks: “This new amendment is just in line with the efforts by the authorities in the past few years to improve the legal tools to better oversee the gaming segment and safeguard its healthy development.”
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