As someone who grew up in a family who competes in cockfighting, this actually caught my attention which makes everything interesting!
Before the start of fight, people would usually bet on which side would win. Usually, the minimum bet (depending on the place) is around $10 and it could exceed more depending on the agreed amount. After the fight, the people you betted with would approach you (or vice versa) and ask for the money if you lost. But with an implementation of an online gambling system where you could use your resources, this would be much convenient for users.
This incident is not very old and just happened on August 5 this year and around 200 people were held by the police. According to the amendments, cockfighting is allowed on holidays like on Sundays and public holidays. If that is true than why they raid this cockfighting arena ?
Maybe because Aug 5th was Monday and the cockfighting was still going on there ?
This incident happened not so long ago and it is controversial.
Per PD449 cockfighting is allowed only on Sundays and
some public holidays. That the basis of the raiding team, the PD449.
On part of the owner of the arena that is being raided they used the
amendment of that PD449 as the basis on holding cockfight on Mondays as they secured permit from the local government. I think on the amendments we can see there that "
local government can regulate the holding of a cockfighting". As i have said, this is a controversial incident.
Assuming that there is a local government code that regulates the holding of a cockfighting pit, that shall be binding to the parties. The special law (the local government code) will be an exception to the general law (PD449).