Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

Licensing sits with the Gaming Commission of Ghana under the Gaming Act, 2006 (Act 721), durable primary legislation providing the statutory basis for casino, sports betting, and route-operation licences. Licences run for a 12-month term, renewable annually subject to continued compliance, reporting and fee payment — a mixed-durability mechanic in which the underlying Act is durable but renewal administration sits closer to a condition the regulator can adjust. Section 19 of Act 721 prohibits licence transfer, a durable statutory constraint with significant downstream effect: no standalone B2B or supplier licence exists, so software studios and aggregators cannot register directly with the Commission and must instead access the market by contracting through an already-licensed local operator. Breach of section 19 carries a fine of not less than 500 penalty units, or imprisonment of not less than two years, or both, together with licence revocation — a probable-confidence enforcement power sourced from a secondary legal practice guide rather than a primary Commission publication, reflecting the jurisdiction's generally thin published regulatory record.