In Thailand, the gambling industry was strictly regulated, with legal authorization granted only for a limited range of activities. When the Plaintiff submitted a request for a license to conduct gambling activities in the form of predicting the outcomes of sporting events, the Defendants— as licensing officers —were deemed to have lacked the legal competence to issue such a license, as there was no statutory provision specifying the title or conditions under which such a license could be granted. As for the application for licenses to conduct gambling activities such as lotteries, scratch cards, or other games of chance that offered monetary rewards to participants, although the law may have conferred discretionary authority upon the licensing officer, the exercise of such discretion must be bounded by the applicable legal framework. Given that there had been a Cabinet Resolution, dated 24 June B.E. 2523 (1980), prohibiting government agencies from issuing lotteries pursuant to the Gambling Act, B.E. 2478 (1935), along with a policy adopted by the Ministry of Interior aimed at the eradication of vice-related establishments, the decision of the Defendants to deny the issuance of a gambling license was regarded as a lawful and reasonable exercise of administrative discretion.