Queensland Consolidated Regulations

LOTTERIES REGULATION 2007 - REG 17BC

17BC Pooling arrangements

(1) This section applies if—

(a) 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

(b) the scheme is a combination of—

(i) a lottery (the
"local lottery" ); and

(ii) a gaming scheme (the
"foreign gaming scheme" ) conducted by the foreign agency that is equivalent to the local lottery; and

(c) for the scheme, the following amounts are pooled—

(i) amounts paid as subscriptions for the local lottery;

(ii) amounts paid by persons to the foreign agency in taking part in the foreign gaming scheme; and

(d) the scheme has—

(i) a single drawing; and

(ii) a single set of prizes.

(2) 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.

(3) For subsection (1) (b) , a reference to equivalent, for a local lottery, includes being equivalent with respect to—

(a) the local lottery’s prize structure; and

(b) the percentage the net prize pool for a drawing of the local lottery bears to the total subscriptions for the drawing.