{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2632",
  "legislation_title": "The National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "Paragraphs 18A and 27(4)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 and articles 17(2)(d) and 27(1)(f) of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (which were inserted by section 18 of the Act) shall not apply in a case where any of the persons mentioned in those paragraphs or articles has received or negotiated a bet on the outcome of any lottery forming part of the National Lottery before 21st December 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1963 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1204 (N.I.11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2632/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:48:25.982864+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."
}