Pooling arrangements
17BC Pooling arrangements
This section applies if—
there is an agreement between a lottery operator and a foreign agency about the operation of a scheme by the lottery operator and agency; and
the scheme is a combination of—
a lottery (the local lottery); and
a gaming scheme (the foreign gaming scheme) conducted by the foreign agency that is equivalent to the local lottery; and
for the scheme, the following amounts are pooled—
amounts paid as subscriptions for the local lottery;
amounts paid by persons to the foreign agency in taking part in the foreign gaming scheme; and
the scheme has—
a single drawing; and
a single set of prizes.
The local lottery may be conducted as part of the scheme, and the provisions of the rule about the local lottery have effect subject to the operation of the scheme.
For subsection (1)(b), a reference to equivalent, for a local lottery, includes being equivalent with respect to—
the local lottery’s prize structure; and
the percentage the net prize pool for a drawing of the local lottery bears to the total subscriptions for the drawing.
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.