{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lottery-duty-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lottery-duty-regulations-1993/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3212",
  "legislation_title": "The Lottery Duty Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lottery-duty-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“accounting period” means—\n(a) a period ending on the last Saturday of each month; or\n(b) where payment is deferred, such period as the Commissioners may require;\n“the Act” means the Finance Act 1993;\n“the 1979 Act” means the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n“applicant” means any person who makes an application to be registered under section 29 of the Act;\n“business day” means a day which is a business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882;\n“chargeable lottery” means a lottery in respect of which lottery duty is chargeable (or, on the taking of a ticket or chance, will be chargeable) in accordance with section 24 of the Act;\n“the National Lottery” has the meaning given by section 1 of the National Lottery etc.Act 1993;\n“registered promoter” means a person registered under section 29 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1882 c. 61 (45 & 46 Vict); section 92 was amended by the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), sections 3 and 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3212/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:59.457727+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."
}