A report published by the government yesterday concludes that the criminalisation of the operation of illegal inns would not be an effective method of solving the long-standing problem, the Secretariat for Administration and Justice (GSAJ) said in a statement yesterday.
The government set up an interdepartmental working group for studying the possible criminalisation of the operation of illegal inns in December last year.
The government said in December last year that in view of Macau’s civil society having recently – at that time – paid close attention to the issue about whether the illegal provision of accommodation should be criminalised, the government had decided to set up the working group in order to comprehensively analyse the opinions raised by different segments of civil society on the issue. The setting-up of the working group aimed to come up with measures that are more effective in combating the operation of illegal inns, the government said at that time.
