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Section 1 The National Lottery.

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In this Act “the National Lottery” means all the lotteries that form part of the National Lottery, taken as a whole.

(2)

A lottery forms part of the National Lottery if the following conditions are satisfied.

(3)

The lottery must be promoted or proposed to be promoted—

(a)

by the F1person licensed to run the National Lottery under section 5, or

(b)

in pursuance of an agreement that has been made between that F2person and the lottery’s promoter or proposed promoter.

(4)

The promotion of the lottery must be authorised by a licence that has been granted to its promoter or proposed promoter under section 6.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in s. 1(3)(a) substituted (1.10.2006) by National Lottery Act 2006 (c. 23), ss. 3(a), 22(1); S.I. 2006/2630, art. 2(a)

F2

Word in s. 1(3)(b) substituted (1.10.2006) by National Lottery Act 2006 (c. 23), ss. 3(a), 22(1); S.I. 2006/2630, art. 2(a)