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

Small society lotteries

Societies that run small society lotteries, that is to say lotteries in which no more than £20,000 worth of tickets are put on sale and where the society’s aggregate proceeds from lotteries do not exceed £250,000 a year may operate without a Commission licence provided they register with their licensing authority. Where it becomes apparent that a small society lottery will exceed either of the monetary limits, it is the responsibility of the society to ensure they apply to the Commission for a licence, before the limit is exceeded.

The promoting society of a small society lottery must, throughout the period during which the lottery is promoted, be registered with a licensing authority in England and Wales or a licensing board in Scotland.

The societies are required to be registered with their licensing authority in the area where their principal office is located. If the local authority believes that the society’s principal office is situated in another area it should inform the society as soon as possible and if possible inform that other authority.

Details of registration requirements and procedures can be obtained from the licensing department of the relevant local authority.

Societies that run small society lotteries under registration with a licensing authority and that sell tickets by means of remote communication (internet, telephone etc) are not required to hold a remote gambling licence issued by the Commission.

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