Kahnawake — a Mohawk territory in Canada — hosts one of the oldest interactive-gaming regulators in the business: the Kahnawake Gaming Commission has been issuing interactive-gaming regulations since 1999, and its current consolidated regulations are dated 25 March 2026. For a Georgian client, the most persistently misrepresented part of this regime is structural. "Getting a Kahnawake licence" sounds like an idiom for market entry, but under the regulations the real route in is a Client Provider Authorization (CPA), appended to the single existing Interactive Gaming Licence (IGL). This page describes the regime from the regulations' own text — the five permit types, the complete fee schedule in US dollars, the increase taking effect on 1 January 2027 — and closes with the Georgian cross-border layer.
The standard warning also applies: a Kahnawake permit creates no access to the Georgian market and does not remove the Georgian permit-tax-reporting layer, which the final section deals with.
The legal basis and the five permit types
Interactive gaming is regulated under the Kahnawake Gaming Law and the regulations concerning interactive gaming issued under section 35 of that law — first enacted on 8 July 1999. Land-based gambling (poker rooms, raffles, gaming devices) is regulated separately. Regulation 10 distinguishes five types: the Interactive Gaming Licence (IGL); Client Provider Authorizations (CPA); Casino Software Provider Authorizations; Live Dealer Studio Authorizations; and Key Person Permits.
Here is the structural fact you need and will not get from agent marketing. The IGL holder operates the co-location facility — the internet-services infrastructure located in Kahnawà:ke — and the regulations say it plainly: only one Interactive Gaming Licence will ever be issued by the Commission at any given time. The operator's real route is the CPA: its holder is entitled to conduct interactive gaming from the co-location facility owned and operated by a valid IGL holder. A CPA and a Casino Software Provider Authorization must be appended to a valid IGL and last only while the IGL remains in good standing; and under regulation 13, the IGL holder is jointly responsible for the breaches of its Authorized Client Providers. Two practical conclusions follow. First, choosing infrastructure in Kahnawake is simultaneously a compliance choice, because your host's failures reflect onto your own position. Second, the contract with the IGL holder is the central document of the structure. The Live Dealer Studio Authorization concerns a physical studio in the territory — a direction of direct interest to Georgian live-studio exporters.