Gambling in Hotels in India

advtanmoy 03/09/2018
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Gambling in Hotel etc

Goa and Sikkim are well-known gambling destinations within India.

Gambling in GOA

Goa Public Gambling Amendment Bill to amend 1976 Act.

Legal Gambling In Sikkim

Sikkim is a second Indian State that has legalized gambling:

Sikkim Casino Games (Control and Tax) Act, 2002 (4 of 2002)

1) The Sikkim Casino Games (Control and Tax Rules), 2002 gives the Sikkim Government the authority to grant licenses to individual and business interested in operating casinos.

2) The Sikkim Regulation of Gambling (Amendment) Act, 2005 gives the Sikkim Government the authority to authorise gambling on certain days and to make specific gambling houses legal at their own discretion by way of a license.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Sikkim Casinos (Control and Tax) Act, 2002, (4 of 2002), the State Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Sikkim Casino Games (Control and Tax) Rules, 2007

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