Check online gambling permission in Madagascar

Category 5 is online gambling

Article 7 defines six categories: hotel casinos, other casinos, automatic gaming rooms, betting and lotteries, online gambling, and traditional games. Articles 8 and 18 require a separate authorization for each category. The Ministry responsible for the Interior grants operating authorizations after advice from the national gaming commission.

The company and technical requirements

The text requires an operator working in the national territory to be a company under Malagasy law. Article 9 provides for locally hosted servers, player-access rules, data protection and fraud prevention. Article 23 sets the legal participation age at 21. These requirements do not establish that any particular operator complies.

Article 31 makes continued authorization conditional on connecting to the national monitoring platform and transmitting data. A ministerial order is to set the technical requirements.

Dates and the individual authorization

Article 17 describes an authorization as personal, temporary, revocable and non-transferable. Article 49 provides six months from adoption for compliance and renewal. Article 51 links commencement to publication by radio or television; the actual date of that event has not been verified for this guide.

Where the June 2026 bill stands

The National Assembly file for Bill 019/2026, dated 2 June 2026, showed “formally filed” on 7 November. The bill appears on the agenda for the 28 September plenary session. The session record gives no vote result, and the sources reviewed here do not establish promulgation.

What an exact website check still needs

Article 10 provides for an operator database held by the ministry. This reading has not established a current public list joining a company, Category 5 permission, its authorized games and an exact website. Those elements and the authorization’s validity need checking before a website can be confirmed.