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

Social responsibility

Lotteries are a form of gambling and as such societies and local authorities are required to ensure that children and other vulnerable people are not exploited by their lottery.

The minimum age for participation in a society or local authority lottery is 16 years of age. A person commits an offence if they invite or allow a child to enter such a lottery. Licensed societies and local authorities running lotteries must have written policies and procedures in place to help prevent and deal with cases of under-age play.

Licence holders must take all reasonable steps to ensure that information about how to gamble responsibly and how to access information and help in respect of problem gambling is readily available.

Further information about social responsibility requirements is contained in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice.

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