Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The clearest enforcement power identified sits in the Vanuatu Interactive Gaming Act [Cap 261]: the Regulator may suspend, revoke, or decline to renew an interactive gaming licence, but only after giving the licensee 14 days' written notice to make submissions. On the evidence reviewed, this procedural notice-and-submissions window is also the principal identified revocation risk driver — the statute does not separately enumerate substantive grounds for suspension or revocation beyond this notice mechanism, so a licensee's failure to use the 14-day window to answer a compliance concern raised by the Regulator is the operative trigger under the current record. No enforcement actions, fines, or prosecutions against Vanuatu-licensed or unlicensed gambling operators have been recorded in the sources reviewed, leaving the sector's practical enforcement posture untested on the public record. A related due-diligence risk sits outside the enforcement power itself: third-party sites, including a non-government domain presenting itself as a gaming authority, attribute administration of Cap 261 to a body other than DCIR, a discrepancy not corroborated on any official .gov.vu page.