Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1930

Appointment of Committee and submission of scheme.

2.—(1) Whenever the governing body of a hospital to which this Act applies desires or the governing bodies of two or more such hospitals jointly desire to hold a sweepstake under this Act to raise funds for such hospital or hospitals, such governing body or bodies may appoint for the purposes of such sweepstake a committee of such number of such persons as it or they thinks or think proper.

(2) Vacancies occurring by death or resignation in the membership of a committee appointed under this section may be filled by the governing body or bodies by which such committee was appointed.

(3) No member of a committee appointed under this section shall receive any remuneration for acting as a member of such committee or for any services rendered or work done by him in relation to the sweepstake for the purposes of which such committee was appointed.

(4) A committee appointed under this section for the purposes of a sweepstake shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme specifying in relation to such sweepstake the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the name or names of the hospital or hospitals the governing body or bodies of which desire to hold such sweepstake, and such particulars of such hospital or hospitals as may be necessary to establish the fact that it is or they are a hospital or hospitals to which this Act applies, and

(b) the names of the members of such committee, and

(c) particulars of the prizes intended to be distributed in such sweepstake, including the money value of any prize which is not a sum of money, and

(d) the number of drawings of prizes intended to be made in such sweepstake and the date on which, the place at which, and the manner in which such drawing or each of such drawings (if more than one) is intended to be made, and

(e) the price intended to be charged for tickets in such sweepstake, and

(f) the amount or the maximum amount proposed to be allowed or expended by way of commission, prize, or other remuneration in relation to the sale of tickets in such sweepstake and the proportion of free tickets proposed to be allotted by way of reward to the seller of any particular number of tickets in such sweepstake, and

(g) the manner in which it is intended to apply, in accordance with this Act the money received from the sale of tickets in such sweepstake, and

(h) the trustees in whose names and the bank in which the deposit or deposits required by this Act of the amount of the prizes is or are intended to be made and, where such deposit or deposits is or are intended to be made wholly or partly by the deposit of securities, particulars of such securities, and

(i) the date before which such deposit is to be made or (where the case so requires) the respective dates before which each such deposit is to be made, and

(j) the person intended to be employed in accordance with this Act to audit the accounts relating to such sweepstake.