Section 252: Promoting a lottery
622.This section clarifies what is meant by the promotion of a lottery. Subsection (2) sets out the activities which constitute promoting a lottery. A person promotes a lottery if (amongst other things) he arranges for the printing, distribution or publication of promotional material. Subsection (3) defines “promotional material” as a document that advertises, invites participation in, contains information about how to participate in, or lists winners in, a particular lottery.
623.Where an external lottery manager is retained to carry out the arrangements for a lottery on behalf of a society or local authority, a lottery is regarded, for the purposes of the Act, as being promoted by both the lottery manager and the society or local authority itself.