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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 (c.32)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to SLD for the following years: 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. See the Tables of Legislative effects and the Update status of legislation page on the SLD website.

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Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976

1976 CHAPTER 32

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Legal and Illegal Lotteries

    1. General illegality of lotteries

      1. 1. Illegality of lotteries

      2. 2. General lottery offences

    2. Exceptions

      1. 3. Small lotteries incidental to exempt entertainments

      2. 4. Private lotteries

      3. 5. Societies’ lotteries

      4. 6. Local lotteries

  2. Part II

    Provisions Relating to Societies’ Lotteries and Local Lotteries

    1. Provisions relating to local lotteries

      1. 7. Purposes of a local lottery

      2. 8. Proceeds of local lotteries

    2. Provisions relating to societies’ lotteries and local lotteries

      1. 9. Schemes for societies’ lotteries and local lotteries

      2. 9A. Lottery managers

      3. 10. Frequency of lotteries

      4. 11. Rules for authorised lotteries

      5. 12. Regulations

      6. 13. Offences relating to societies’ lotteries and local lotteries

  3. Part III

    Competitions and Amusements

    1. Newspaper and other competitions

      1. 14. Prize competitions

    2. Amusements with prizes

      1. 15. Provision of amusements with prizes at exempt entertainments

      2. 16. Provision of amusements with prizes at certain commercial entertainments

      3. 17. Restriction on grant and provisions as to duration and forfeiture of permits

  4. Part IV

    Supplementary

    1. 18. Powers of Secretary of State as to monetary limits, fees etc

    2. 19. Search warrants

    3. 20. Penalties and forfeitures

    4. 21. Offences by bodies corporate

    5. 22. Meaning of “private gain” in relation to proceeds of entertainments, lotteries and gaming promoted on behalf of certain societies

    6. 23. Interpretation

    7. 24. Orders and regulations

    8. 25. Citation, etc

  5. SCHEDULE 1

    Registration of Societies by Local Authorities

  6. Schedule 1A

    REGISTRATION OF SOCIETIES BY THE GAMING BOARD

  7. SCHEDULE 2

    Registration of Schemes

  8. Schedule 2A

    LOTTERY MANAGERS

  9. SCHEDULE 3

    Permits for Commercial Provision of Amusements With Prizes

  10. SCHEDULE 4

    Consequential Amendments

  11. SCHEDULE 5

    Repeals

An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to lotteries, prize competitions and amusements with prizes.

[22nd July 1976]

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 25(9); Act wholly in force at 1. 5. 1977

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