Government Gazette

Vol. 413, No. 20610, 5 November 1999

Regulation Gazette, No. 6669

No. R. 1321

GOVERNMENT NOTICE

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY

LOTTERIES ACT, 1997 (ACT No. 57 OF 1997)

REGULATIONS RELATING TO PRIVATE LOTTERIES

The Minister of Trade and Industry has, with the concurrence of the National Lotteries Board, under section 61 of the Lotteries Act, 1997 (Act No. 57 of 1997), made the regulations in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Definition.

  1. In these regulations, unless the context indicates otherwise, any word or expression defined in the Lotteries Act, 1997 (Act No. 57 of 1997), has that meaning.

Persons to whom tickets may be sold

  1. No ticket to be sold in respect of a private lottery shall -
  1. be sold to a person under the age of 12 years; and
  2. in respect of persons 12 years and older, be sold at a price exceeding R 10.

Value of tickets and prizes

  1. (1) The total value of the tickets sold or to be sold in any one private lottery shall not exceed R10 000.

(2) The total value of the prizes in any one private lottery shall not exceed R2 000.

Information which shall appear on ticket

  1. If tickets are printed for a private lottery, the following information shall appear on the tickets:
  1. The closing date of the private lottery;
  2. the price of the ticket; and
  3. the date of the draw of the private lottery.

Commencement

  1. These regulations shall come into operation on [day] [month] 1999.