Contents

• Promoting society and local authority lotteries
• 1.
  General
• 2.
  Financial requirements
• 3.
  Protection of children and other vulnerable persons
• 4.
  ‘Fair and open’ provisions
• 5.
  Marketing
• 6.
  Complaints and disputes
• 7.
  Gambling licensees’ staff
• 8.
  Information requirements
• 9.
  Gaming machines in gambling premises
• 10.
  Assessing local risk
• Definition of a lottery
• Meaning of society and local authority lotteries
• Large society and local authority lottery licensing requirements
• Small society lotteries
• Personal Management Licences
• External Lottery Managers (ELMs)
• External Lottery Managers and service providers
• Remote lotteries
• Gambling Commission licence conditions and codes of practice
• Society and local authority lotteries - proceeds and other monetary limits
• Information to lottery players: proceeds and prizes
• Ticket information
• Sale of tickets
• Financial requirements
• Lottery submissions
• Social responsibility
• B3A lottery machines
• Proceeds and profits
• Misusing profits of lotteries

Definition of a lottery

In simple terms a lottery is a kind of gambling that has three essential elements:

• payment is required to participate
• one or more prizes are awarded
• those prizes are awarded by chance.

This is set out more formally in the Act which defines two types of lottery, a simple lottery and a complex lottery.

An arrangement is a simple lottery if:

• people are required to pay to participate in the arrangement
• in the course of the arrangement one or more prizes are allocated to one or more people in a class the prizes are allocated by a process which relies wholly on chance.

An arrangement is a complex lottery if:

• people are required to pay to participate in the arrangement
• in the course of the arrangement one or more prizes are allocated to one or more people in a class
• the prizes are allocated by a series of processes
• the first of those processes relies wholly on chance.

In addition, section 14(5) of the Act (opens in new tab) stipulates that, for the purpose of these definitions, a process that requires people to exercise skill or judgment or display knowledge is to be treated as relying wholly on chance if:

• the requirement cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of people who participate in the arrangement from receiving a prize
• it cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of people who wish to participate in the arrangement from doing so.

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