The Lotteries (Prizes and Expenses: Variation and Prescription of Percentage Limits) Order 1997

2.  The percentage specified in section 11(11) of the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976(1) (which is the maximum percentage of the proceeds of a society’s lottery or a local lottery that may be appropriated for the provision of prizes) shall, instead of 50 per cent, be 55 per cent.

(1)

As amended by section 52(6) of the National Lottery Etc. Act 1993.