---
title: "Casino Licensing"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/casino-licensing-518-en"
field: "Licensing & Regulatory Permits"
description: "Casino permit procedure in Georgia: Revenue Service application documents, prohibited locations, and fines up to 20 000 GEL under the gambling law. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Casino Licensing

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/casino-licensing-518-en

## The Legal Basis of the Casino Permit

Under the Georgian Law on Gambling Games, the conduct of any type of gambling and/or profit-making game, the organization of such games in systemic-electronic form, and the supply of gambling and/or profit-making games all require a permit issued in accordance with the Georgian Law on Licenses and Permits. Article 5 of the law permits only the organization of lotteries, gambling and/or profit-making games expressly envisaged by that law, together with the distribution of their tickets. Conducting these activities without a permit, or failing to observe permit conditions, constitutes a violation of the law and triggers the liability defined by Georgian legislation. You should also note the sectoral prohibitions embedded in the same provision: issuing a permit for promotional games aimed at the rapid and effective sale of tobacco products, tobacco accessories and/or devices intended for tobacco consumption is prohibited, and using such products as prizes in promotional games or lotteries, or distributing them through lotteries, gambling and profit-making games, is likewise banned. In addition, persons registered in Georgia, whether natural or legal, may not organize the games envisaged by this law on any type of floating object located in the internal maritime waters or the territorial sea of Georgia.

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### Who issues casino permits in Georgia?

The Revenue Service issues, amends and revokes the permits and enters them in the sectoral permit registry; it also verifies the application documents and controls the observance of permit conditions without quantitative limitation.

### How high are the fines for breaching permit conditions?

A casino permit holder faces a fine of 20 000 GEL; systemic-electronic organization permits carry the same 20 000 GEL level, while totalizator, gambling club and supply permits carry 10 000 GEL. The fine must be paid within 30 calendar days of delivery of the imposing act.

### Where is organizing gambling prohibited?

In children's, medical and educational institutions, cult buildings, children's sanatoriums, libraries, museums, administrative buildings of state and municipal bodies, and any other locations prohibited by the relevant municipal body.

### What must the casino regulation contain?

The list of casino and club tables with factory numbers, minimum and maximum bets per table, the full list of games with detailed rules, working hours, payout deadlines and places, and a claims procedure capped at 30 calendar days.