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LOTTERIES BETTING ACT, 1960 (ACT
31).
As amended by
THE LOTTERIES AND BETTING
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962 (ACT 143).1
THE LOTTERIES AND BETTING
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1964 (ACT 247)2.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
PART I—LOTTERIES
1. Lotteries in general unlawful.
National Lotteries
2. Exemption for national
lotteries.
3. Financial provisions.
4. Deficits to be made up out of
Consolidated Fund.
5. Auditing of accounts and
reports.
6. Publication of particulars of
lotteries.
7. Appointment of date for draw in
a lottery.
8. Power to make regulations.
Other Lawful Lotteries
9. Exemption for lotteries
incidental to certain
entertainments.
10. Exemption for private
lotteries.
11. Exemption for lotteries for
charitable purposes.
12. Exemption in respect of
certain sweepstakes.
13. Tickets and documents.
14. Forfeiture.
PART II—GAMING AND BETTING
15. Gaming and betting in general
not unlawful.
16. Unlawful gaming.
17. Gaming in a public place.
18. Gaming houses.
19. Betting houses.
20. Cheating by gaming, etc.
PART III—AGREEMENTS BY WAY OF
GAMING OR WAGERING
21. Gaming and wagering agreements
to be void.
22. Securities in respect of
gaming or wagering.
23. Loans for gaming or wagering.
PART IV—MISCELLANEOUS
24. Interpretation.
25. Statutes ceasing to apply.
26. Repeals.
27. Amendment of Betting Tax
Ordinance.
28. Savings.
29. Commencement.
SCHEDULES
First Schedule—Particulars of
Lotteries.
Second Schedule—Statutes Ceasing
to Apply.
Third Schedule—Repeals.
THE THIRTY-FIRST
ACT
OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF GHANA
ENTITLED
THE LOTTERIES AND BETTING ACT,
1960
AN ACT to consolidate the law
relating to lotteries, gaming and
wagering.
DATE OF ASSENT: 12th January, 1961
BE IT ENACTED by the President and
the National Assembly in this
present Parliament assembled as
follows:—
PART I—LOTTERIES
Section 1—Lotteries in General
Unlawful.
(1) Subject to the provisions of
this Part all lotteries are
unlawful.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply
to any lottery promoted by the
Government of Malta as a Malta
Interstate Lottery.
(3) Every person who in connection
with any unlawful lottery promoted
or proposed to be promoted either
in Ghana or elsewhere—
(a) prints any tickets for use in
the lottery; or
(b) sells or distributes, or
offers or advertises for sale or
distribution or has in his
possession for the purpose of sale
or distribution, any tickets in
the lottery; or
(c) prints, publishes or
distributes, or has in his
possession for the purpose of
publication or distribution—
(i)
any advertisement of the lottery;
or
(ii) any list (whether complete or
not) of prize winners or winning
tickets in the lottery; or
(iii) any such matter descriptive
of the drawing or intended drawing
of the lottery, or otherwise
relating to the lottery, as is
calculated to act as an inducement
to persons to participate in that
lottery or in other unlawful
lotteries; or
(d) brings, or invites any person
to send into Ghana for the purpose
of sale or distribution any ticket
in, or advertisement of, the
lottery; or
(e) sends or attempts to send out
of Ghana any money or valuable
thing received in respect of the
sale or distribution, or any
document recording the sale or
distribution, or the identity of
the holder of any ticket in the
lottery; or
(f) uses any premises, or causes
or knowingly permits any premises
to be used, for purposes connected
with the promotion or conduct of
the lottery; or
(g) causes, procures or attempts
to procure any person to do any of
the above-mentioned acts, is
guilty of a misdemeanour.
(4) In any proceedings instituted
under subsection (3) it shall be a
defence to prove that the lottery
to which the proceedings relate
was in its inception such a
lottery as is declared by this Act
not to be an unlawful lottery and
that at the date of the alleged
offence the defendant believed,
and had reasonable ground for
believing, that none of the
conditions required by those
provisions to be observed in
connection with the promotion and
conduct of the lottery had been
broken.
(5) Proceedings under subsection
(3)(c)(iii) in respect of any
matter published in a newspaper
shall not be instituted except by,
or by direction of, the
Attorney-General.
National Lotteries
Section 2—Exemption for National
Lotteries.
With a view to the raising of
revenue it shall be lawful for the
Minister responsible for finance
(in this Part referred to as "the
Minister") to conduct national
lotteries.
Section 3—Financial Provisions.
(1) There shall be an account to
be known as the Lottery Account.
(2) There shall be paid into the
Lottery Account the proceeds of
the sale of tickets in any
national lottery, less the amounts
duly retained by sellers of the
tickets.
(3) There shall be paid out of the
Lottery Account the money for the
prizes in the lotteries and
payments duly made to those who
are engaged to assist in the
distribution of tickets to the
sellers.
(4) After the conclusion of a
lottery any balance in the Lottery
Account shall be paid into the
Consolidated Fund.
Section 4—Deficits to be made up
out of the Consolidated Fund.
If the amount standing to the
credit of the Lottery Account at
any time is less than the amount
required to meet the money for
prizes or other payments to be
made out of the Account under
section 3 of this Act, the balance
shall be charged on, and paid by
the Minister out of, the
Consolidated Fund and paid into
the Account.
Section 5—Auditing of Accounts and
Reports.
(1) The Minister shall for every
national lottery keep an account
of all receipts and outgoings in a
form approved by the
Auditor-General.
(2) Within three months from the
end of any year in which any
national lottery has been held the
Auditor-General shall present to
the National Assembly a copy of
the Account for the lottery,
audited by the Auditor-General,
and a report concerning the
lottery, and shall state in the
report whether he is satisfied
that all practicable steps have
been taken for the prevention and
detection of fraud in connection
with the lottery.
Section 6—Publication of
Particulars of Lotteries.
(1) Before the draw is made in any
national lottery the Minister
shall publish in the Gazette a
notice in the form in Part I of
the First Schedule to this Act
with a certificate by the
Auditor-General in that form.
(2) Not later than eight weeks
after the draw is made the
Minister shall publish in the
Gazette a notice in the form in
Part II of the First Schedule to
this Act with a certificate by the
Auditor-General in that form.[As
amended by the Lotteries and
Betting (Amendment) Act, 1962 (Act
143).]
Section 7—Appointment of Date for
Draw in a Lottery.
The Minister shall appoint the
date on which the draw of tickets
in any national lottery is to be
held by notice in the Gazette
published not less than one week
before the date appointed.
Section 8—Power to make
Regulations.
The Minister may by legislative
instrument make regulations as
respects national lotteries and in
particular as respects—
(a) the number and value of the
prizes to be distributed;
(b) the appointment of a Lotteries
Board with such functions as may
be prescribed by the regulations;
(c) the appointment of a
Commission to verify the numbers
of tickets the holders of which
should participate in a lottery,
to be present at the draw of
tickets, and to carry out such
other duties in connection with
the draw as may be prescribed by
the regulations;
(d) the appointment, duties and
remuneration of agents and sellers
for the sale of tickets;
(e) the form of any tickets or
other documents to be used in the
conduct of a lottery;
(f) the number of tickets to be
issued;
(g) the method of collection and
disposal of subscriptions;
(h) the issue of tickets in
respect of subscriptions;
(i)
the method of claiming prizes;
(j) the determination of any
dispute as to the person entitled
to any prize or money and
providing that in the event of a
dispute as to a prize remaining
unsettled for a prescribed period
the prize may be forfeited;
(k) the disposal of unclaimed
prizes.
Other Lawful Lotteries
Section 9—Exemption for Lotteries
Incidental to Certain
Entertainments.
(1) A lottery promoted as an
incident of a bazaar, sale of
work, fete or other entertainment
of a similar character whether
limited to one day or extending
over two or more days shall not be
an unlawful lottery, provided that
the conditions specified in
subsection (2) are observed in
connection with the promotion and
conduct of the lottery, but if any
of these conditions is broken, the
lottery shall thereupon become an
unlawful lottery and every person
concerned in the promotion or the
conduct of the lottery shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour unless he
proves he had no grounds for
knowing that the lottery had
become unlawful.
(2) The conditions referred to in
subsection (1) are that—
(a) none of the prizes in the
lottery shall be money prizes;
(b) the total value of the prizes
shall not exceed fifty pounds;
(c) the whole proceeds of the
entertainment (including the
proceeds of the lottery) after
deducting—
(i)
the expenses of the entertainment
excluding expenses, other than for
prizes, incurred in connection
with the lottery, and
(ii) the expenses incurred in
printing tickets in the lottery,
shall be devoted to a social,
charitable or sporting purpose and
not in part or whole for private
gain;
(d) the facilities offered for
participating in lotteries shall
not be the only, or the only
substantial, inducement to persons
to attend the entertainment; and
(e) the result of the lottery
shall not be declared except on
the premises on which the
entertainment takes place and
during the progress of the
entertainment.
Section 10—Exemption for Private
Lotteries.
(1) In this section, "private
lottery" means a lottery in Ghana
which is promoted for, and in
which the sale of tickets by the
promoters is confined to, either—
(a) members of one society
established and conducted for
purposes not connected with
gaming, wagering or lotteries; or
(b) persons all of whom work on
the same premises; or
(c) persons all of whom reside on
the same premises;
and which is promoted by
individuals each of whom is a
person to whom under the foregoing
provisions tickets may be sold by
the promoters and, in the case of
a lottery promoted for the members
of a society, is an individual
authorised in writing by the
governing body of the society to
promote the lottery.
In this section "society" includes
a club, institution, organisation
or other association of
individuals by whatever name
called, and each local or
affiliated branch or section of a
society shall be regarded as a
separate and distinct society.
(2) A private lottery shall not be
an unlawful lottery, provided that
the following conditions are
observed in connection with the
promotion and conduct of the
lottery—
(a) the whole proceeds, after
deducting only expenses incurred
for printing and stationery, shall
be devoted to the provision of
prizes for purchasers of tickets
or, in the case of a lottery
promoted for the members of a
society, shall be devoted either
to the provision of prizes as
aforesaid or to purposes which are
purposes of the society or, as to
part, to the provision of prizes
as aforesaid and, as to the
remainder, to such purposes as
aforesaid;
(b) there shall not be exhibited,
published or distributed any
written notice or advertisement of
the lottery other than—
(i)
a notice thereof exhibited on the
premises of the society for whose
members it is promoted, or, as the
case may be, on the premises on
which the persons for whom it is
promoted work or reside; and
(ii) such announcement or
advertisement thereof as is
contained in the tickets, if any;
(c) the price of every ticket
shall be the same, and the price
of any ticket shall be stated on
the ticket;
(d) every ticket shall bear upon
the face of it the names and
addresses of each of the promoters
and a statement of the persons to
whom the sale of tickets by the
promoters is restricted, and a
statement that no prize won in the
lottery shall be paid or delivered
by the promoters to any person
other than the person to whom the
winning ticket or chance was sold
by them, and no prize shall be
paid or delivered except in
accordance with that statement;
(e) no ticket shall be issued or
allotted by the promoters except
by way of sale and upon receipt of
the full price thereof which shall
be stated on the ticket and no
money or valuable thing so
received by a promoter shall in
any circumstances be returned:
Provided that money or any
valuable thing received by
promoters in respect of the sale
of a ticket may be returned to the
purchaser in any case where it was
not received by the promoters on
or before the advertised closing
date or, where no closing date is
advertised, before the selection
of the winning ticket and where
the ticket in respect of which the
money or valuable consideration
was received was not included
among the tickets from which the
winning ticket was selected.
(3) If any of the conditions
specified in subsection (2) is
broken, the lottery shall
thereupon become an unlawful
lottery and each of the promoters
of the lottery, and where the
person by whom the condition is
broken is not one of the
promoters, that person also, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanour:
Provided that it shall be a
defence for a person charged only
by reason of his being a promoter
of the lottery to prove that he
had no grounds for knowing that
the lottery had become unlawful.
Section 11—Exemption for Lotteries
for Charitable Purposes.
(1) A lottery promoted by a
society or association which in
the opinion of the President,
published by notice in the
Gazette, has for its main object
the care or protection of
physically or mentally afflicted,
needy or aged persons or orphans
or destitute children shall not be
an unlawful lottery, provided that
the conditions specified in
subsection (2) are observed in the
promotion and conduct of the
lottery, but if any of these
conditions is broken the lottery
shall thereupon become an unlawful
lottery and every person concerned
in the promotion or conduct of the
lottery shall be guilty of a
misdemeanour unless he proves that
he had no grounds for knowing that
the lottery had become an unlawful
lottery.
(2) The conditions referred to in
subsection (1) are that—
(a) the tickets printed for use in
the lottery shall bear consecutive
numbers starting with the number
one and the total number of such
tickets shall not exceed the
number which if all such tickets
were sold would result in the
receipt of more than twenty-five
thousand pounds;
(b) the total prizes in the
lottery or the value thereof shall
not exceed six thousand pounds;
(c) the whole proceeds of the
lottery after deducting the
expenses of the lottery, which
shall not exceed ten per centum of
the whole of the moneys received
from the sale of tickets, shall in
so far as they are not devoted to
the provision of prizes in respect
of tickets be devoted to making
provision for the care or
protection of physically or
mentally afflicted needy or aged
persons or orphans or destitute
children:
Provided that the expenses of the
lottery which may be deducted
under the provisions of this
paragraph shall, in the case of a
lottery in which free tickets are
issued, be reduced from ten per
centum by one-quarter of the
percentage which the face value of
the free tickets issued bears to
the face value of the total of
tickets issued or sold;
(d) the price of every ticket
shall be the same, and the price
of any ticket shall be stated on
the ticket;
(e) no ticket shall be issued or
allotted by the promoters except
by way of sale and upon receipt of
the full price thereof which shall
be stated on the ticket and no
money or valuable thing so
received by a promoter shall in
any circumstances be returned:
Provided that tickets may be
issued free to a seller thereof,
not being a person concerned in
the promotion of the lottery, to a
number not exceeding one for each
nine tickets sold by him:
Provided further that money or any
valuable thing received by
promoters in respect of the sale
of a ticket may be returned to the
purchaser in any case where it was
not received by the promoters on
or before the advertised closing
date or, where no closing date is
advertised, before the selection
of the winning ticket, and where
the ticket in respect of which the
money or valuable consideration
was received was not included
among the tickets from which the
winning ticket was selected;
(f) every ticket shall bear upon
the face of it the name and
address of the society promoting
it;
(g) within one month of the
determination of the tickets in
respect of which prizes are
awarded in the lottery there shall
be sent to the Commissioner of
Police a statement containing the
following particulars:—
(i)
the total sum realised on the sale
of tickets;
(ii) the cost of the prizes or
the amount of the prizes, if money
prizes;
(iii) the expenses of promoting
the lottery with reference to the
matters on which the expense was
incurred; and
(iv) the purposes to which the
balance of the sum realised on the
sale of tickets after the
deduction of the amounts set out
in (ii) and (iii) hereof have been
applied or allocated;
and such further information and
documents relating to the lottery
shall be provided by the society
or association as the Commissioner
of Police, or a police officer
authorised by him in writing for
the purposes of this section,
shall require.
(3) A notice published in the
Gazette under subsection (1) may
be cancelled or varied by a notice
similarly made and published.
(4) The provisions of this section
shall cease to have effect upon
such date as the President may
appoint by notice published in the
Gazette.
Section 12—Exemption in Respect of
Certain Sweepstakes.
A
sweepstake, the prizes in respect
of which are allocated on the
result of any horse race, shall
not be an unlawful lottery if the
Commissioner of Police, on receipt
of an application naming all the
persons responsible for promoting
and conducting it, authorizes it
in writing to be promoted and
conducted.
Section 13—Tickets and Other
Documents.
For the purposes of sections 2, 9,
10 and 11 of this Act—
(a) "ticket" includes, in relation
to any lottery or proposed
lottery, any document evidencing
the claim of a person to
participate in the chances of a
lottery;
(b) documents or other matters
shall be deemed to be distributed
if they are distributed to persons
whether within or outside Ghana.
Section 14—Forfeiture.
Where a person is convicted of an
offence under sections 2, 9, 10 or
11 of this Act the Court may order
the forfeiture of any money
collected by or on behalf of that
person on the sale of tickets and
of any instrument or thing used in
the lottery in connection with
which the offence was committed.
PART II—GAMING AND BETTING
Section 15—Gaming and Betting in
General not Unlawful.
Gaming and betting are not
unlawful except as otherwise
provided in this Act.
Section 16—Unlawful Gaming.
(1) Subject to the provisions of
this section gaming is unlawful
if—
(a) by reason of the nature of the
game, the chances of all the
players, including the banker, are
not equal; or
(b) any portion of the stakes is
retained by the promoter or the
banker otherwise than as winnings
on the result of the play.
(2) Gaming shall not be unlawful
if no stake is hazarded by the
players with the promoter or
banker other than a charge for the
right to take part in the game,
and if—
(a) only one such charge is made
in respect of the day on which the
game is played, and
(b) the charge is the same for all
the players, and
(c) the promoter derives no
personal profit from the promotion
of the game.
(3) Any person who takes part in,
or promotes or provides facilities
for unlawful gaming is guilty of a
misdemeanour.
Section 17—Gaming in a Public
Place.
Every person playing or betting by
way of wagering or gaming in any
public place at or with any table
or instrument of gaming, or any
coin, card, token, or other
article used as an instrument or
means of such wagering or gaming
at any game or pretended game of
chance, is guilty of a
misdemeanour and shall be liable
to a fine in addition to, but not
in lieu of, imprisonment.
Section 18—Gaming Houses.
(1) Any person being the owner or
occupier, or having the use of,
any house, room or place, who
opens, keeps or uses it as a
gaming house, and any person who,
being the owner or occupier of any
such house, room or place,
knowingly and wilfully permits it
to be opened, kept or used by any
other person as aforesaid, and any
person having the care or
management of or in any manner
assisting in conducting the
business of any house, room or
place opened, kept or used as
aforesaid, is guilty of a
misdemeanour.
(2) Any person, other than a
person mentioned in subsection
(1), who is found in a gaming
house shall be deemed to be there
for the purpose of playing any
game of chance for money or
money's worth, and liable to a
fine not exceeding five pounds,
unless the contrary is proved.
Section 19—Betting Houses.
(1) Any house, room or place is
called a betting house if it is
used for any of the following
purposes, that is to say—
(a) for the purpose of bets being
made therein between persons
resorting to the place and—
(i)
the owner, occupier, or keeper of
the place, or any person using the
place; or
(ii) any person procured or
employed by or acting for or on
behalf of any such owner, occupier
or keeper, or person using the
place; or
(iii) any person having the care
or management, or in any manner
conducting the business of the
place; or
(b) for the purpose of any money
or other property being paid or
received therein by or on behalf
of any such owner, occupier, or
keeper, or person using the place
for any of the following purposes,
that is to say—
(i)
for an assurance, undertaking,
promise, or agreement, express or
implied, to pay or give thereafter
any money or other property on any
event or contingency of or
relating to any horse race, or
other race, fight, game, sport or
exercise; or
(ii) for securing the paying or
giving by some other person of any
money or other property on any
such event or contingency.
(2) Any person who, being the
owner or occupier of any such
house, room or place, knowingly
and wilfully permits it to be
opened, kept or used as a betting
house by another person, or who
has the use or management, or
assists in conducting the
business, of a betting house, is
guilty of a misdemeanour.
(3) This section does not affect
betting at a race course on the
result of any horse race by means
of a totalisator or a pari mutuel,
and such betting is not unlawful.
Section 20—Cheating by Gaming,
etc.
Every person who, by any fraud or
cheat in promoting or operating or
assisting in promoting or
operating or in providing
facilities for any game or in
acting as banker for those who
play or in playing at, or in
wagering on the event of any game,
sport, pastime or exercise, wins
from any other person or causes or
procures any person to win from
another anything of which the
offence of defrauding by false
pretences can be committed shall
be deemed guilty of that offence
and punishable accordingly.
PART III—AGREEMENTS BY WAY OF
GAMING OR WAGERING
Section 21—Gaming and Wagering
Agreements to be Void.
(1) An agreement by way of gaming
or wagering is void.
(2) For the purposes of this
section an agreement to pay any
sum of money or to deliver any
valuable thing alleged to have
been won on a wager or by gaming
shall be deemed to be an agreement
by way of wagering or gaming.
(3) For the purposes of this
section an agreement whereby two
or more persons deposit any sum of
money or valuable thing with any
person to abide any event on which
a wager has been made, or the
result of any game, shall be
deemed to be an agreement by way
of wagering or gaming:
Provided that nothing in this
section shall disentitle any
person to claim the return of any
sum of money or valuable thing
which he may have deposited with
any such person as aforesaid,
before that person has paid over
the money or delivered the
valuable thing in accordance with
the instructions of the depositor.
(4) For the purposes of this
section an agreement to subscribe
or contribute for or towards any
prize, whether in money or
otherwise, to be awarded to the
winner of any lawful game shall
not be deemed to be an agreement
by way of gaming or wagering.
(5) For the purposes of this
section an agreement by any person
to indemnify an agent for any
liabilities incurred by the agent
in respect of any agreement by way
of gaming or wagering shall be
deemed to be an agreement by way
of gaming or wagering.
Section 22—Securities in Respect
of Gaming or Wagering.
Any security given by any person
in respect of anything won by a
lawful game, wager or lottery
shall be deemed to have been given
without consideration, and any
security given by any person in
respect of anything won by an
unlawful game or lottery shall be
deemed to have been given for an
unlawful consideration.
Section 23—Loans for Gaming or
Wagering.
An agreement whereby a person
lends money to another person and
any security given in respect of
such a loan shall not be void by
reason only that the loan is used,
or is required to be used, for
gaming or wagering or
participating in a lottery or for
discharging any debts (whether
valid or not) incurred through
gaming or wagering or
participating in a lottery:
Provided that nothing in this
section shall affect any agreement
whereby a person lends money for
an unlawful purpose.
PART IV—MISCELLANEOUS
Section 24—Interpretation.
In this Act, unless the context
otherwise requires—
"banker" in relation to a game
means the banker or other person
by whom the game is managed, or
against whom the players stake,
play or bet;
"gaming" means playing a game
(whether of skill or chance or
partly of skill and partly of
chance) for stakes hazarded by the
players;
"horse race" means any horse or
pony race held upon a racecourse
or track upon which the
Commissioner of Police has given
authority by notice published in
the Gazette for the holding of
horse or pony racing;
"lottery" includes—
(a) any scheme or device for the
sale or other disposal or
distribution (not being a
gratuitous disposal or
distribution) of any property
where the sale or other disposal
or distribution depends upon or is
to be determined wholly by lot or
chance, and
(b) any scheme whereby any person
(hereinafter referred to as the
contributor) is required to give
money or other valuable property
to some other person or persons on
the understanding that the
contributor will receive in due
course, whether directly or
indirectly, from other persons
taking part in the scheme, money
or valuable property exceeding in
value that given by the
contributor.[As substituted by the
Lottories and Betting (Amendment)
Act, 1964 (Act 247).]
"national lottery" means a lottery
conducted under section 2 of this
Act;
"Pari
mutuel" means any system or form
of betting in which winners divide
losers' stakes (whether or not
less a percentage for management)
and includes a pool betting
system;
"stake" includes any payment for
the right to take partin a game
and any other form of payment
required to be made as a condition
of taking part in a game, but does
not include a payment made solely
for facilities provided for the
playing of a game;
"totalisator"
means the contrivance for betting
known as the totalisator or any
other machine or instrument of
betting of a like nature, whether
mechanically operated or not.
Section 25—Statutes Ceasing to
Apply.
The statutes indicated in the
Second Schedule to this Act shall,
in so far as they apply in Ghana,
cease to apply.
Section 26—Repeals.
Each of the enactments indicated
in the first column of the Third
Schedule to this Act is repealed
to the extent indicated in the
second column.
Section 27—Amendment of Betting
Tax Ordinance.
The definitions of "betting" and
"sweepstake" in section 2 of the
Betting Tax Ordinance, 1955 (No.
5), are amended by deleting in
each case the words "subsection
(1) of section 3 of this
Ordinance" and substituting—
(a) in the definition of "betting"
the words "subsection (3) of
section 19 of the Lotteries and
Betting Act, 1960 (Act 31)"; and
(b) in the definition of
"sweepstake" the words "section 12
of the Lotteries and Betting Act,
1960 (Act 31)".
Section 28—Savings.
(1) Any regulations made, and any
notice or authorization published
or granted under any enactment
repealed by this Act shall remain
in force and shall be deemed to
have been made, published or
granted under the corresponding
provision of this Act.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall
render unlawful any form of game
authorised by any other enactment.
Section 29—Commencement.
This Act shall come into operation
on the first day of February,
1961.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Section 6.
PARTICULARS OF LOTTERIES
PART I
Statement of the Numbers of
Tickets Participating in Draw for
the..........National Lottery to
be held on..................
TICKET NUMBERS
From
To
From To
......................
........................
..........................
........................................
......................
........................
..........................
........................................
......................
........................
.........................
........................................
CERTIFICATE
I
am satisfied that the above are
the numbers of the tickets which
should properly participate in the
...........National Lottery.
................................
Auditor-General
PART II
The..................................................National
Lottery
..............................................................
Date of draw of lottery.............................................................................................................
Number of tickets sold.............................................................................................................
Total gross receipts from sale of
tickets.....................................................................................
ŁG
Number of prizes paid at 5,000
Number of prizes paid at 2,000
Number of prizes paid at 1,000
Number of prizes paid at 100
Number of prizes paid at 50
Number of prizes paid at 25
CERTIFICATE
I
have examined the records of the
above lottery and hereby certify
that the particulars set out above
are correct.
..........................
Auditor-General
SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 25
STATUTES CEASING TO APPLY
Session and
Chapter
Subject-matter
33 Hen. 8, c.9
(1541)
Unlawful Games.
10 Will. 3, c.23
(1698)
Suppression of Lotteries.
9
Anne c.6
(1710)
Gaming.
8
Geo. 1, c.2
(1721)
Lotteries.
2
Geo. 2, c.28
(1728)
Unlawful Games.
6
Geo. 2, c.35
(1732)
Lotteries.
12 Geo. 2, c.28
(1738)
Gaming.
13 Geo. 2, c.19
(1739)
Gaming.
18 Geo. 2, c.34
(1744)
Gaming.
42 Geo. 3, c.119
(1802)
Gaming.
46 Geo. 3, c.148
(1806)
Lotteries.
4
Geo. 4, c.60
(1823)
Lotteries.
5
and 6 Will. 4, c.41
(1835)
Gaming.
6
and 7 Will. 4, c.66
(1836)
Lotteries.
7
and 8 Vict., c.3
(1844)
Actions for Gaming.
8
and 9 Vict., c.74
(1845)
Lotteries.
8
and 9 Vict., c.109
(1845)
Gaming.
16 and 17 Vict., c.119
(1853)
Betting.
17 and 18 Vict., c.38 (1854)
Gaming Houses.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Section 26.
REPEALS
Short
Title
Extent of repeal
Betting Tax Ordinance, 1955
(No.5).
Section 3.
Criminal Code (Amendment)
Ordinance, 1955 (No. 6). The
whole Ordinance
Lotteries Act, 1958 (No.
15).
The whole Act.
Criminal Code (Lotteries) Act,
1959 (No.
5).
The whole Act.
Criminal Code (Amendment) (No.2)
Act, 1959 (No. 55). The whole
Act.
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