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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 26

Exemption of small lotteries incidental to certain entertainments.

26.(1) A lottery promoted as an incident of an entertainment to which this
section applies shall be deemed not to be an unlawful lottery, but the
conditions specified in sub-section (2) shall be observed in connection with
the promotion and conduct of the lottery, and if any of those conditions is
broken, every person concerned in the promotion or conduct of the lottery
shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves that the offence was committed
without his knowledge.

(2) The conditions referred to in sub-section (1) are that

(a)the whole proceeds of the entertainment (including the proceeds of the
lottery) after deducting

(i)the expenses of the entertainment, excluding expenses incurred in
connection with the lottery; and

(ii)the expenses incurred in printing tickets in the lottery; and

<(iii)such sum, if any, not exceeding ten pounds as the promoters of the lottery think fit to appropriate on account of any expense incurred by them in purchasing prizes in the lottery,


(a)shall be devoted to purposes other than private gain;

(b)none of the prizes in the lottery shall be money prizes; and

(c)the facilities afforded for participating in lotteries shall not be the
only, or the only substantial, inducement to persons to attend the
entertainment.

(3) The entertainments to which this section applies are bazaars, sales of
work, fe8tes and other entertainments of a similar character, whether limited
to one day or extending over two or more days.

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