National Lottery etc. Act 1993

52 Rules for lotteries

(1) Section 11 of the 1976 Act (rules for authorised lotteries) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b) (information to be given in the case of a society’s lottery on every ticket and every notice or advertisement of the lottery) for the words from “and every notice” to “published” there shall be substituted “distributed or sold”.

(3) In subsection (3) (the price of every ticket or chance in a lottery to be the same and to be stated on any ticket) after “any ticket” there shall be inserted “distributed or sold”.

(4) After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A) No payment other than the price of a ticket or chance shall be required of a person as a condition of his admission to participate in a society’s lottery or a local lottery.”

(5) For subsections (5) to (10) there shall be substituted—

“(5) No prize in a society’s lottery or a local lottery shall exceed in amount or value £25,000 or 10 per cent. of the total value of the tickets or chances sold in the lottery (whichever is greater).

(6) The total value of the tickets or chances sold in any one such lottery shall not exceed £1,000,000.

(7) The total value of the tickets or chances sold in all such lotteries held in any one year and promoted on behalf of the same society or by the same local authority shall not exceed £5,000,000.

(8) For the purposes of subsection (7) above, a lottery is held in the year in which the date of the lottery falls.

(9) In this section “year” means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st January; but if subsection (7) above (as substituted by section 52 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993) comes into force on a date other than 1st January—

(a) the period beginning with that date and ending with the next 31st December shall be taken to be the first year for the purposes of that subsection, and

(b) in relation to that period, the reference to £5,000,000 in that subsection shall be read as a reference to a proportionately smaller amount.”

(6) In subsection (11) (not more than half of a lottery’s proceeds may be appropriated for the provision of prizes) for “one half” there shall be substituted “50 per cent.”.

(7) In subsection (13) (which specifies, in relation to the amount of a lottery’s proceeds that may be appropriated on account of expenses, limits that differ according to whether or not the proceeds exceed £10,000)—

(a) for “£10,000”, in both places, there shall be substituted “£20,000”, and

(b) for “25 per cent.”, in both places, there shall be substituted “30 per cent.”

(8) After subsection (13) there shall be added—

“(14) For the purposes of subsection (12) above, the amount of any expenses that are met—

(a) by the society on whose behalf, or the local authority by whom, the lottery is promoted, or

(b) by any beneficiary of the lottery,

shall be treated as having been appropriated on account of expenses from the proceeds of the lottery.

(15) In subsection (14) above “beneficiary of the lottery” means a person (other than the society on whose behalf, or the local authority by whom, the lottery is promoted) to whom or for whose benefit any of the proceeds of the lottery, other than amounts appropriated in respect of expenses or prizes, are lawfully paid or applied.

(16) The amount of the proceeds of a society’s lottery or a local lottery appropriated for the provision of prizes and the amount of those proceeds appropriated on account of expenses (exclusive of prizes) shall not exceed in aggregate a prescribed percentage of the whole proceeds of the lottery.”