Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAR 2022年3月 亞博匯 48 public want a healthy and sustainable gaming industry. With most considering these third-party promoted casinos likely to remain unresolved after the expiry of the current concessions, the draft under considerationcameasasurprise to the satellite community. In retrospect, this policy direction does make sense and seems almost inevitable, given the restructuring and expansion of the DICJ last summer and the ongoing regulatory actions on the junket operators. These measures demonstrate the commitment of the government to address this legacy issue head-on. The new gaming law is likely to dissolve the deep- seated casino partnership and mark a turning point for any third-party involvement in gaming operations. The Macau government has proposed introducing a grace period of three years for the existing cohort of satellite casinos. Still, it behooves the authorities and the public to examine other related issues arising from the complexity of this casino partnership. Most of the outstanding questions are legal and technical in nature. Future casino properties must be owned by gaming operators. And yet, it is advised to explicate this draft provision as to whether the premises on which a casino is operated must be a wholly- owned (100%) or majority- owned (over 50%) subsidiary of the concessionaire, or COLUMNISTS 衛星娛樂場物業所面臨的 法律改變 本地衛星娛樂場充斥著各種非正 式的業內手法。毫無疑問，澳門政府及 公眾均希望擁有一個健康及可持續的博 彩業。雖然大部分人都曾認為，這些由 第三方推廣的娛樂場很可能在現今博彩 承批合約屆滿後都不會找到一個解決方 案，但現正被審議的建議修改，卻殺了 一眾衛星娛樂場一個措手不及。可是，