Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

The Gambling Regulatory Authority Act, No.17 of 2025, certified 3 September 2025 and in force from 1 December 2025, repealed the Betting on Horse-Racing Ordinance, the Gaming Ordinance and the Casino Business (Regulation) Act, No.17 of 2010, replacing three sectoral statutes with a single consolidated framework and regulator. The Act creates three new licence categories: the Digital Gambling Licence, the Gambling Software Licence, and the Junket Operator Licence. Each category exists as a matter of primary legislation, but the secondary regulations that would govern application procedure, fees and technical standards for any of the three have not yet been published. This leaves the enabling Act itself as a durable and settled instrument, while the licensing regime it authorises remains, for now, unactionable by any applicant. No operator currently holds a Digital Gambling Licence or a Gambling Software Licence under the new regime.