Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

The Committee for the Regulation of Gambling Business and Lottery Activities, established under the Ministry of Tourism and Sports in September 2024, continues to administer Kazakhstan's licensing regime under the primary, durable Law On Gambling Business. That statute confines casino and slot-hall licensing to designated tourism zones and expressly lists unlicensed foreign bookmakers' and totalizators' internet resources as prohibited actors, forming the statutory basis for subsequent enforcement action. As of May 2026, access to land-based casinos and slot halls in the Konaev/Kapshagay and Borovoye zones has reportedly tightened to foreign nationals only, a probable development resting on a single lower-tier corroborating source against the durable statutory zone-restriction backdrop. This represents a material change to who a licensed venue may serve, though the underlying zone-confinement framework itself remains a stable, durable feature of the licensing regime.