{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-261",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005/section-261.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/19",
  "legislation_title": "Gambling Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambling-act-2005",
  "path": "section/261",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "261",
  "heading": "Misusing profits of exempt lottery",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to the following kinds of lottery—\n(a) an incidental ... lottery (within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 11),\n(b) a private society lottery (within the meaning of Part 2 of that Schedule), ...\n(ba) a work lottery and a residents’ lottery (within the meaning of Part 2 of that Schedule) except where the lottery has been organised in such a way as to ensure that no profits are made, and\n(c) a small society lottery (within the meaning of Part 4 of that Schedule).\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 one for which the lottery is permitted to be promoted in accordance with Schedule 11.\n(3) Subsection (3) of section 260 shall have effect for the purpose of this section as it has effect for the purpose of that section.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 261(1)(a) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Exempt Lotteries) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/124), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 261(1)(b) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Exempt Lotteries) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/124), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 261(1)(ba) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Legislative Reform (Exempt Lotteries) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/124), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 261 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/261",
    "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."
  }
}