Part I AUTHORISATION AND REGULATION OF THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Preliminary

1 The National Lottery.

1

In this Act “the National Lottery” means all the lotteries that form part of the National Lottery, taken as a whole.

2

A lottery forms part of the National Lottery if the following conditions are satisfied.

3

The lottery must be promoted or proposed to be promoted—

a

by the body licensed to run the National Lottery under section 5, or

b

in pursuance of an agreement that has been made between that body and the lottery’s promoter or proposed promoter.

4

The promotion of the lottery must be authorised by a licence that has been granted to its promoter or proposed promoter under section 6.