About us

• Introduction
• What is the SCJ
  • Mission
  • Responsibilities
  • Audience
  • Regulated establishments
• Gaming control board
• Organization structure
  • Superintendent
  • Audit Division
  • Legal Division
  • Division of Studies
  • Administration and Finance Unit
  • Information Technology Unit
  • Communications Unit
  • Information and Customer Service Unit
  • Internal Auditing
• Declarations
• Casino law
• Management balance

Organization structure

Superintendent

The Superintendent of Casinos (PT), Francisco Javier Leiva, has an Industrial Civil Engineering degree of the Catholic University of Chile and a Master of Arts in Economics (M.A.) of ILADES-Georgetown University (1989). He worked as a consultant for the World Bank and represented the Ministry of Finance in the processing of the bill that originated the Act N° 19.913, which created the Financial Analisys Unit, and the Act N° 19.995, which establishes general guidelines for approval, operation and supervision of casinos. He took the post of Superintendent of Casinos on February 1st of 2005.

His main responsabilities are:

• Manage and control the operation of the Superintendence of Casinos.
• Execute and celebrate agreements to fulfill the purposes of the Service.
• Apply, regarding matters within its competence, the law, regulations and technical standards that control the supervised entities and activities; to formulate generally applicable instructions for the related procedures and to make sure the are followed.
• Give accounting instructions for supervised entities to follow so they can comply with the obligations provided by the law and related regulations, particularly those that govern the presentation of balance-sheets and financial statements, and how accounting data are recorded and reported.
• Give technical instructions and implement procedures and records for supervised entities to begin, conduct and close daily operation of gaming and gambling.
• Impose sanctions and penalties provided for in the law and in other legal bodies regulating the activity of casinos.
• Make inspection visits or have the supervised establishments visited by inspectors or officials with the frequency that deems convenient.
• Temporarily suspend or cancel operations of a casino when the operator is in violation of the provisions about conduction of business, is infringing the law and other related regulations. The operator can correct the infringing actions within the deadlines that the Superintendent establishes to this effect.
• File claims before a court of justice, ex-office or ex parte, regarding the conduction of ilicit gambling business in violation of the Gambling Act by unauthorized individuals or entities; and to report the violations or infringements reported while performing these duties.