{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-260",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-260.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/19",
  "legislation_title": "Gambling Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005",
  "path": "section/260",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "260",
  "heading": "Misusing profits of lottery",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a lottery in respect of which the promoter has stated (in whatever terms) a fund-raising purpose for the promotion of the lottery.\n(2) A person commits an offence if he uses any part of the profits of a lottery to which this section applies for a purpose other than that stated.\n(3) The reference in subsection (2) to using profits includes a reference to permitting profits to be used.\n(4) In subsection (1) the reference to a statement of a purpose for the promotion of a lottery is a reference to a statement appearing—\n(a) on lottery tickets, or\n(b) in an advertisement for the lottery.\n(5) In subsection (4)(b) “advertisement” in relation to a lottery includes any written notice announcing that a lottery will take place or inviting people to participate in a lottery (in either case whether or not it also gives other information).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 260 in force at 1.9.2007 by S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(4)(5), Sch. 3B (with arts. 7-11, 7-12, Sch. 4) (as inserted by S.I. 2007/2169, arts. 3, 6, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/260",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:42.684927+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}