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

Meaning of society and local authority lotteries

Society lotteries

Society lotteries are lotteries promoted for the benefit of a non-commercial society. Such societies are organisations that have distinct aims and objectives and meet the definition of a non-commercial society set out in the Act.

A society is non-commercial if it is established and conducted:

• for charitable purposes
• for the purpose of enabling participation in, or of supporting, sport, athletics or a cultural activity
• for any other non-commercial purpose other than that of private gain.

Local authority lotteries

Local authority lotteries are lotteries promoted by local authorities themselves. These differ from society lotteries registered with a licensing authority. Authorities may use the net proceeds of such lotteries for any purpose for which they have power to incur expenditure.

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