CEZA’s Legal Basis

If you’ve ever wondered how the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, via First Cagayan Leisure and Resort Corporation , can hand out licenses to online casinos and what the legal foundation is for the Authority’s authority, here’s one answer in Manila Bulletin:

But how is CEZA able to offer online gambling without
infringing the license of Pagcor and encountering the legal
roadblocks that have doomed the earlier effort of Sage?

CEZA officials pointed as legal basis a provision of
Republic Act 7922, the law that created the special economic
zone and which was passed in 1995 with Sen. Juan Ponce
Enrile as the main author.

Section 6 (f) of the said law gave the CEZA the right “to
operate on its own, either directly or through a subsidiary
entity, or license to others, tourism-related activities,
including games, amusements, recreational and sports
facilities such as horse racing, dog racing, gambling
casinos, golf courses, and others, under priorities and
standards set by the CEZA.”