Gambling (Channel Islands Lottery) (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Regulations 2001

Jersey R&O 114/2001

 

Gambling (Jersey) Law 1964

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GAMBLING (CHANNEL ISLANDS LOTTERY) (AMENDMENT No. 4) (JERSEY) REGULATIONS 2001

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(Promulgated on the 1st day of August 2001)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 31st day of July 2001

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                THE STATES, in pursuance of Article 3 of the Gambling (Jersey) Law 1964,[1] as amended, have made the following Regulations -

 

                1.      In these Regulations, “principal Regulations” means the Gambling (Channel Islands Lottery) (Jersey) Regulations 1975,[2] as amended.[3]

 

                2.      In Regulation 1(1) of the principal Regulations -

 

                (a)     after the definition “Guernsey” there shall be inserted the following definitions -

 

“ ‘Guernsey Committee’ means the States of Guernsey Gambling Control Committee;

 

‘instant game’ means a lottery to which paragraph (1A) of Regulation 2 refers;”;

 

                (b)     in the definition “ticket”, after the word “issued” there shall be inserted the words “, or which is issued pursuant to these Regulations in connexion with the allocation of prizes in an instant lottery”;

 

                (c)     for the definition “winning combination” there shall be substituted the following definition -

 

“ ‘winning combination’ means the combination of numbers, pictures or other symbols -

 

(a)    on a ticket; or

 

(b)    on a part of a ticket;

 

which will entitle the holder of the ticket or of such part to a prize;”;

 

                (d)     for sub-paragraph (b) of the definition “winning ticket” there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph -

 

“(b)  when used to refer to a ticket, or a part of a ticket, which consists of an entry in an instant lottery, means -

 

          (i)      a ticket, or

 

          (ii)     a part of a ticket,

 

         which reveals a winning combination.”.

 

                3.-(1)  Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations shall be amended -

 

                (a)     by substituting for the words “the States of Guernsey Gambling Control Committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guernsey Committee’)” the words “the Guernsey Committee”;

 

                (b)     by substituting for everything after the words “as part of such public lottery” a full stop.

 

                (2)     After Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraphs -

 

                          “(1A) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Committee may from time to time jointly with the Guernsey Committee promote and conduct an instant lottery (in these Regulations called ‘an instant game’) as an alternative to the lotteries to which paragraph (1) refers.

 

                          (1B) The lotteries to which paragraphs (1) and (1A) refer shall be known collectively as the Channel Islands Lottery.”.

 

                4.      After Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, but before the heading “TICKETS.”, there shall be inserted the following Regulation -

 

                          5A. In connexion with each instant game, the Committee shall jointly with the Guernsey Committee determine the number of tickets to be issued and shall so determine, and specify by notice published in the Jersey Gazette and in such other manner as it thinks fit -

 

                          (a)     the price at which each ticket to be issued in connexion with the instant game shall be sold;

 

                          (b)     the prizes to be awarded;

 

                          (c)     the period (if any) during which the tickets are to be sold; and

 

                          (d)     such other matters as the Committee may think necessary or expedient.”.

 

                5.      After Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations, but before the heading “AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF TICKETS.”, there shall be inserted the following Regulation -

 

                          6A.-(1)  Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this Regulation, the tickets to be issued for sale in connexion with an instant game shall be of such design and colour, and shall be printed on such paper bearing such watermark, as the Committee and the Guernsey Committee may from time to time jointly determine.

 

                          (2)     Any determination under paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall not operate so as to prevent the issue in respect of a particular instant game of tickets differing as to colour, design, paper or watermark from other tickets issued in respect of that instant game.

 

                          (3)     Every ticket shall contain the following particulars, that is to say -

 

                          (a)     a combination of numbers, pictures or other symbols which are concealed when the ticket is sold but which are capable of being revealed and which in some cases will consist of a winning combination;

 

                          (b)     an indication of which combination of numbers, pictures or other symbols will consist of a winning combination and the prizes to be awarded in each case if such winning combination is revealed;

 

                          (c)     the price at which the ticket is to be sold; and

 

                          (d)     such other particulars, if any, as the Committee and the Guernsey Committee may jointly determine.”.

 

                6.      Regulation 10(1) of the principal Regulations shall be amended by inserting after the words “the following prizes shall be paid” the words “in respect of lotteries to which paragraph (1) of Regulation 2 refers”.

 

                7.      After Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations, but before the heading “ORDERS.”, there shall be inserted the following Regulation -

 

                          10A.-(1)  Subject to the provisions of this Regulation, the prize to be paid in the case of a ticket consisting of an entry in an instant game revealing a winning combination shall be the prize indicated as the prize awarded on the revealing of that combination.

 

                          (2)     The holder of a winning ticket consisting of an entry in an instant game shall claim a prize in the same manner as the holder of a part of a winning ticket consisting of an entry in an instant lottery to which paragraph (1) of Regulation 2 refers, and paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of Regulation 10 (including the provisions in those paragraphs conferring on the Committee powers to prescribe amounts) shall apply accordingly as they apply in relation to such parts of tickets and their holders.

 

                          (3)     Paragraphs (7) and (8) of Regulation 10 shall also apply in relation to a prize which is payable in respect of a winning ticket consisting of an entry in an instant game, and in relation to the person claiming the prize under this Regulation, as they apply in relation to prizes and claimants in lotteries to which paragraph (1) of Regulation 2 refers.

 

                          (4)     No payment of a prize in an instant game shall be effected in Jersey in any case where the claim for such prize is made after the expiration of a date appointed by the Committee in a notice published in the Jersey Gazette and in such other manner as the Committee thinks fit, such date being not less than 12 months after the ticket was issued.

 

                          (5)     In any case where payment of a prize in an instant game is not claimed within the period mentioned in paragraph (4) of this Regulation, the amount of the prize not so claimed shall be divided between the Committee and the Guernsey Committee in such proportions as may be agreed by those Committees and any sum so accruing to the Committee shall be paid into the Fund.”.

 

                8.      These Regulations may be cited as the Gambling (Channel Islands Lottery) (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on the day following promulgation.

 

                                                                                            C.M. NEWCOMBE

 

Greffier of the States.



[1] Recueil des Lois, Volume 1963-1965, page 287.

[2] No. 6153.

[3] Nos. 6874 and 9153.


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