Lotteries Act 1975

Section 20.

SCHEDULE 3Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963

1In section 52(2) of the [1963 c. 2.] Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (penalties and forfeitures) for the word " subsection " there shall be substituted the word " subsections ".

The Gaming Act 1968

2In section 52(3) of the [1968 c. 65.] Gaming Act 1968 (the playing of a game of chance which also constitutes a lawful lottery not to constitute gaming for the purposes of that Act), in paragraph (a) for the words from " section 45(1) " to the end there shall be substituted the words " section 2(1)(a) or 3(1)(a) of the Lotteries Act 1975 (promotion of society's lotteries and local lotteries in accordance with approved schemes), and ".

The Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1972

3In section 6 of the [1972 c. 25.] Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1972 (pool betting duty)—

(a)for paragraph (b) of subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

“(b)" bet" does not include the taking of a ticket or chance in any lottery referred to in subsection (4) below.”;

(b)after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(4)The lotteries referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (3) above are—

(a)any lottery which is declared by section 43, 44 or 46 of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 not to be unlawful; or

(b)any society's lottery or local lottery within the meaning of the Lotteries Act 1975 in which the monetary limits referred to in the following provisions of that Act namely—

(i)subsections (2), (5), (6) and (8) of section 9, and

(ii)section 2(2)(a), in the case of a society's lottery promoted in accordance with a scheme which is not registered in pursuance of section 2(2)(b) (registration with Gaming Board for Great Britain),

are not exceeded, disregarding for the purposes of this section any variation of those limits made by order under section 11 of that Act.”