SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Legality etc. of lotteries forming part of the National Lottery
The Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 (c. 32)
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(1)
In section 1 of the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 (illegality of lotteries) after “except as provided by this Act” there shall be added “and section 2(1) of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993”.
(2)
In section 2 of that Act (general lottery offences) at the end of subsection (2) (defences) there shall be added—
“; or
(d)
that the lottery to which the proceedings relate was a lottery forming part of the National Lottery for the purposes of Part I of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 or that at the date of the alleged offence the person charged believed, and had reasonable ground for believing, it to be such a lottery.”