The government has appointed a department chief of the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) as a deputy director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) effective from Monday next week.
The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has two deputy directors in its organisational structure.
Since Adriano Marques Ho, who had headed the bureau since June 2020, became the director-general of the Macau Customs Service, one of the principal officials of Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai’s administration, on December 20 last year, the bureau has been headed by Lio Chi Chong, who had been a deputy director of the bureau since February 2021, on a temporary basis, i.e., Lio has been the bureau’s acting director. Consequently, one of the bureau’s two deputy director positions has been left vacant.
The currently serving deputy director of the bureau is Chui Hou Ian, who took up the position in February 2023.
According to an executive order published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday, Secretary for Economy and Finance Anton Tai Kin Ip has appointed Lei Seak Chio, who currently heads the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Labour Affairs Bureau, as a deputy director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau for a one-year term effective from February 10, 2025.
Tai, whose portfolio oversees both bureaus, signed yesterday’s executive order on January 21.
According to Tai’s executive order, Lei started working in the Labour Affairs Bureau in 2005 where he was promoted to the chief of the Hazard Inspection Division in 2020, before becoming the chief of the Occupational Safety and Health Department in 2023.
While bureaus consist of departments, the latter consist of divisions.
Lei holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management from Huaqiao University in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the National Academy of Governance in Beijing.
This handout photo released by the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) in November 2023 shows Lei Seak Chio, who heads the bureau’s Occupational Safety and Health Department, delivering a presentation about Macau’s occupational health and safety measures during a forum held in Hong Kong in October 2023.
