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Prohibition on certain persons from owning lottery ticket
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43. (1) None of the following persons shall be entitled to own a National Lottery ticket that has been purchased for value or awarded as a prize in the National Lottery or any part of such a ticket:
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(a) the operator or a director, or agent of the operator (but not including a retail sales agent), or employee of the operator;
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(b) a person who manufactures National Lottery tickets or any employee of the person or, if that person is a company, a director of the company;
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(c) a person who operates, controls or programmes the central gaming system of the National Lottery or any employee of the person or, if that person is a company, a director of the company.
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(2) If a person specified in subsection (1) becomes the owner of the whole or part of a National Lottery ticket—
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(a) he or she commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction, to a class A fine, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €200,000,
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(b) the National Lottery ticket shall not be entered in the National Lottery and, if it is so entered, the owner or owners thereof shall not be entitled to be awarded any prize in the National Lottery in respect of the ticket, and
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(c) if a prize is awarded in the National Lottery to the owner or owners of the ticket, the prize shall be returned, not later than one month after its receipt, to the operator and, if it is not so returned, it or an amount equal to its value may be recovered by the operator from the owner or, jointly and severally, from the owners of the ticket as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(3) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to show that the National Lottery ticket concerned was purchased for him or her without his or her knowledge or consent by another person and (in the case of a person other than the operator) that, as soon as reasonably possible after becoming aware of the purchase, he or she informed the operator of the purchase and of the fact that he or she was not entitled to be the owner of the ticket.
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