BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 25 Offences in connection with lotteries.

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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 25

Offences in connection with lotteries.

25.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every person who in
connection with any lottery promoted or proposed to be promoted either in
Northern Ireland or elsewhere

(a)makes, prints, advertises or publishes any tickets for use in the lottery
or any proposal, scheme or plan relating to the lottery; or

(b)sells, barters, exchanges or otherwise disposes of, or distributes, or
offers or advertises for sale or distribution, or has in his possession for
the purpose of sale or distribution, any tickets or chances in the lottery; or

(c)prints, publishes or distributes, or has in his possession for the purpose
of publication or distribution

(i)any advertisement of the lottery; or

(ii)any list (whether complete or not) of prize winners or winning tickets in
the lottery; or

<(iii)any such matter descriptive of the drawing or intended drawing of the lottery or otherwise relating to the lottery, as is calculated to act as an inducement to persons to participate in that lottery or in other lotteries; or


(d)brings, or invites any person to send, into Northern Ireland for the
purpose of sale or distribution any ticket in, or advertisement of, the
lottery; or

(e)conducts or manages any scheme, contrivance or operation of any kind for
the purpose of determining who, or the holders of what lots, tickets, numbers
or chances, are the winners of any property proposed to be advanced, loaned,
given, sold or disposed of by the lottery; or

(f)sends or attempts to send out of Northern Ireland any money or valuable
thing received in respect of the sale or distribution, or any document
recording the sale or distribution, or the identity of the holder, of any
ticket or chance in the lottery; or

(g)uses any premises, or causes or knowingly permits any premises to be used,
for purposes connected with the promotion or conduct of the lottery; or

(h)causes, procures or attempts to procure any person to do any of the above
mentioned acts,

(2) In any proceedings instituted under sub-section (1) it shall be a defence
to prove that the lottery to which the proceedings relate was such a lottery
as is declared by any subsequent section of this Part not to be an unlawful
lottery, and that at the date of the alleged offence the defendant believed,
and had reasonable ground for believing, that none of the conditions required
by that section to be observed in connection with the promotion and conduct of
the lottery had been broken.

(3) Proceedings under sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1)
in respect of any matter published in a newspaper shall not be instituted
except by, or by direction of, the Attorney General.

(4) This section shall not apply to

(a)the recalling by drawing of lots of any bonds, debentures, shares, stocks
or other securities, upon the redemption thereof whether with or without
interest or payment of premium or otherwise;

(b)the division by lot or chance of any estate in land or any movable property
amongst the joint tenants or tenants in common thereof, or amongst other
persons having joint interests therein;

(c)the distribution by lot of premiums given as rewards to promote thrift by
regularity in making periodical deposits of weekly or monthly savings in [the
National Savings Bank] or in any Trustee Savings Bank or in the purchase of
Ulster Savings Certificates or National Savings Certificates out of such
savings at periodic intervals; or

(d)the use of chance to select for special benefits particular securities
issued under the National Loans Act, 1939, if the terms of the issue provide
that the amount subscribed is to be repayable in full in the case of all the
securities.

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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 25