National Lottery etc. Act 1993

5 (1) In paragraph 4 (grounds on which the registration authority have a discretion to refuse or revoke the society’s registration)— E+W+S

(a) for sub-paragraph (1)(a) there shall be substituted—

“(a) that any person who is or will be a person connected with a lottery promoted or proposed to be promoted on behalf of the society has been convicted of an offence to which this paragraph applies; or”,

(b) after sub-paragraph (1)(b) there shall be inserted— “; or

(c) that any information given by the society to the authority in or in connection with the society’s application for registration was false in a material particular.”,

(c) in sub-paragraph (2) (offences to which paragraph 4 applies) after “an offence under paragraph 14 below” there shall be inserted “ , paragraph 14 of Schedule 1A below, paragraph 8 or 9 of Schedule 2 below, paragraph 12 of Schedule 2A below ”, and

(d) after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be added—

“(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, a person connected with a lottery is a person who is or has been—

(a) involved in the promotion of the lottery; or

(b) employed for reward in connection with the promotion of any other lottery on behalf of the same society.”

(2) After paragraph 4 there shall be inserted—

“4A The registration authority may, after giving the society an opportunity of being heard, revoke the registration of the society under this Part of this Schedule if it appears to the authority that the society has failed to comply with a requirement imposed on it under paragraph 16 below.”