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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legislative-reform-exempt-lotteries-order-2015/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111128220",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislative Reform (Exempt Lotteries) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legislative-reform-exempt-lotteries-order-2015",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consequential and incidental amendments",
  "text": "(1) In the Gambling Act 2005—\n(a) in section 56(1)(a) (invitation to participate in lottery), omit “non-commercial”;\n(b) in section 261(1) (misusing profits of exempt lottery)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), omit “non-commercial”;\n(ii) omit “and” at the end of paragraph (b);\n(iii) after paragraph (b), insert—\n“(ba) a work lottery and a residents’ lottery (within the meaning of Part 2 of that Schedule) promoted wholly for a purpose other than that of private gain, and”;\n(c) in section 263 (penalty), after subsection (2), insert—\n“(3) In the application of subsection (1) to an offence committed under section 261(2) by virtue of section 261(1)(ba) before section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 comes into force, the reference in subsection (1)(a) to 51 weeks is to be read as a reference to 6 months.”\n(2) In the Licensing Act 2003, in section 175 (exemption for incidental non-commercial lottery), omit “non-commercial”—\n(a) in the heading; and\n(b) in subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c.17; section 175 was substituted by paragraph 20(2) of Schedule 16 to the Gambling Act 2005."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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