{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-253",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-253.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/19",
  "legislation_title": "Gambling Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005",
  "path": "section/253",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "253",
  "heading": "Lottery ticket",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act a document or article is a lottery ticket if it confers, or can be used to prove, membership of a class for the purpose of the allocation of prizes in a lottery.\n(2) A reference in this Act to the sale or supply of a lottery ticket by a person includes a reference to a person doing anything as a result of which another person becomes a member of the class among whom prizes in a lottery are to be allocated.\n(3) A reference in this Act to purchase of a lottery ticket includes a reference to any action by a person as a result of which he becomes a member of the class among whom prizes in a lottery are to be allocated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 253 in force at 1.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 7-11, 7-12, Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/253",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:42.684927+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}