Lotteries

The Gambling act 2005 allows any charity or similar organisation which wishes to run a lottery or raffle where tickets are to be sold to the general public  to first register with the Council for the area.

A fee is payable on registration and annually thereafter on the anniversary of the grant of the licence if the registration is to continue. A number of conditions must be complied with when running a lottery and details of these conditions will be supplied to all applicants for registration.  A return showing the total proceeds of each lottery and how the money was spent must be submitted to the Council.

Subject to certain conditions it is not necessary to register with the Council to run a lottery where tickets are only sold at at an event and the prize winners are drawn there, or where the tickets are only sold to members of one organisation not set up for the purposes of gaming, betting or lotteries or to persons who all work or reside on the same premises.

Application

The application should be completed and returned to our Licensing Office together with the fee of £40.

Each year that the lottery is continued on the payment of £20.00 which this Authority will send out an invoice for.

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