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The Lotteries (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2021-08-11

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 11th August 2021

Coming into operation: 7th September 2021

In accordance with Article 138(2) of that Order, the Department has consulted with such associations of district councils as appear to the Department likely to be affected by these Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as The Lotteries (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 7th September 2021.

Amendment of the Lotteries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

2

The Lotteries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994[^f00004] shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3

For regulation 5 (machines) substitute—

(5) type=start slip=2021-09-01 time=1632298254652Except for the sale of tickets or chances in a lottery by means of the internet, no tickets or chances in a lottery shall be sold by means of a machine.type=end slip=2021-09-01 time=1632298254652

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 11th August 2021

Anthony Carleton — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Lotteries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 to permit the sale of tickets or chances in societies’ lotteries by means of the internet. Except for these purposes, the sale of tickets or chances in societies’ lotteries by means of a machine remains prohibited.

An Equality Impact Assessment has been prepared and can be viewed at www.communities-ni.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly known as the Department for Social Development; see the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c. 5 (N.I.)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/1204 (N.I. 11)

[^f00003]: See S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 8(b) of and Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 transferred functions to the Department for Social Development which were previously exercisable by the Department of Health and Social Services; see the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), Under section 1 the Department for Social Development was renamed the Department for Communities

[^f00004]: S.R. 1994 No. 467

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