The Lotteries Ordinance

Lotteries CHAPTER 32. LOTTERIES. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

CHAPTER 32. LOTTERIES. [Cap. 32 253 An Ordinance for the Repeal and Re-enactment of the Lotteries 30 of 1959. Ordinance, in order to make Better Provision for the Law Relating to Lotteries. [31ST DECEMBER, 1959.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lotteries Ordinance. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- " lottery " includes any game, method or device whereby money or money's worth is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot; "lottery ticket" includes any paper, ticket, token or other article whatsoever, which either expressly or tacitly entitles or purports to entitle any person to receive any money or money's.worth on the happening of any event or contingency connected with any public lottery; "Minister" means the member of Executive Council charged with responsibility for the subject of Internal Affairs; " public lottery " means a lottery to which the public or any class of the public has, or may have, access, and every lottery shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a public lottery. 3. Every person who- (a) gives or sells or offers for sale or delivers any lottery ticket or pays or receives directly or indirectly any money or S.L.-VoL. l-21 Short title. Interpretation. Offences relating to lotteries. Recov:ery of money paid for lottery ticket. Cap. 32] Lotteries money's worth for or in respect of any chance in or event or contingency connected with a public lottery; or (b) draws, throws, declares or exhibits, expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number, ticket, lot, figure, design symbol or other result of any public lottery; or ' (c) writes, prints, publishes, or causes to be written, printed, or published, any lottery ticket, or any announcement relating to a public lottery; or (d) advances, furnishes, or receives money for the purpose of a public lottery; or (e) in any manner carrjes ori, or assists in carrying on, or invites or solicits any person to take part in a public lottery, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. 4. Any money or money's worth paid or deposited for or in respect of the purchase of a lottery ticket shall be recoverable as money had and received to the use of the person by whom the same was paid or deposited. C~ntra1t for 5. Every sale or contract for the sale of a lottery ticket is :~c~e~rv~!~~ry hereby declared to be void, and no action shall be maintainable by any person in respect of any such sale or contract, except by the purchaser for the return of the money or other consideration (if any) paid thereon. Saving of certain lotteries. 6. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall apply to or prevent the sale by raffle or lottery of articles exposed for sale at any bazaar or fancy fair held for raising funds in aid of any institution of a public character provided that permission for such sale shall have been given in writing by the Minister.