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National Lottery etc. Act 1993

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5Licensing of a body to run the National Lottery

(1)The Director General may by licence authorise a body corporate to run the National Lottery.

(2)Only one body may be licensed under this section at any one time.

(3)The Director General shall not grant a licence under this section unless an application in writing, containing such information as he has specified as necessary for enabling him to determine whether to grant it, has been made to him by such date as he has specified.

(4)The Director General shall not grant such a licence unless he is satisfied that the applicant is a fit and proper body to run the National Lottery.

(5)In determining whether to grant such a licence, the Director General may consider—

(a)whether any person who appears to him to be likely to manage the business or any part of the business of running the National Lottery under the licence is a fit and proper person to do so, and

(b)whether any person who appears to him to be likely to be a person for whose benefit that business would be carried on is a fit and proper person to benefit from it.

(6)A licence under this section shall include a condition requiring the licensee to pay to the Secretary of State at such times as may be determined by or under the licence such sums out of the proceeds of lotteries forming part of the National Lottery as may be so determined.

(7)A licence under this section may include a condition requiring the licensee to make such arrangements as may be determined by or under the licence for securing that, in circumstances specified in the licence, such sums as may be so determined are paid to the Director General for distribution to participants in lotteries forming part of the National Lottery.

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