title: Nepal — Overview: What kind of market is this? | advennt.io canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/nepal/overview/ [Jurisdictions](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/) [Nepal](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/nepal/) Overview Nepal · Question 01 of 11 # Overview: What kind of market is this? Unfavourable · Confirmed · AI-generated · [Back to full Nepal report →](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/nepal/) Key section parameters | Jurisdiction | Nepal (NP) | |---|---| | Regulator | Recorded in register | | Favourability | Unfavourable | | Confidence | Confirmed | | Review status | AI-generated | | Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 | Summary answer Nepal maintains a bifurcated gambling regime: general gambling and betting is criminally prohibited under the Penal Code 2074, while a narrow licensed land-based casino track, open to foreigners only, operates under Casino Regulation 2070 on a one-casino-per-licence basis. Online gambling and bettin… ### Key headwinds & conditions - Online gambling criminally prohibited and ISP-blocked - FATF grey list with blacklisting risk - No online licensing pathway - Nepali nationals barred even from licensed land-based casinos ## Full section analysis Nepal maintains a bifurcated gambling regime: general gambling and betting is criminally prohibited under the Penal Code 2074, while a narrow licensed land-based casino track, open to foreigners only, operates under Casino Regulation 2070 on a one-casino-per-licence basis. Online gambling and betting are explicitly and separately banned regardless of offshore hosting. This period's dominant development is the Tourism Bill 2081's clause-by-clause House of Representatives review, which has drawn 263 lawmaker amendments concentrated on casino provisions, touching supervisory structure, foreign-ownership limits and anti-money-laundering obligations. Enforcement against unlicensed online gambling has intensified in parallel, with a coordinated Cyber Bureau action and reported crypto-linked settlement of unlicensed betting flows, indicating a regulatory environment that is tightening on multiple fronts simultaneously even as its underlying casino-licensing architecture remains under active legislative debate.