Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person, or two or more persons together, must not conduct or promote a scheme or part of a scheme—
(a) under which a guarantee or promise is given to a person participating in the scheme to the effect that the person will win a prize or share of a prize in a public lottery; or
(b) in respect of which the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, or represents, that the probability of participants in the scheme collectively or separately winning a prize or share of a prize in a public lottery is greater than the highest probability of winning a prize or share of a prize in that public lottery under any scheme conducted by the licensee in relation to that public lottery.
Penalty: 60 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) A prize is not payable in respect of an entry in a public lottery if the entry was accepted or obtained under, or used in connection with, a scheme or part of a scheme—
(a) of a kind referred to in subsection (1); and
(b) conducted by a person other than a licensee or an appointed subsidiary of a licensee.
(3) If a prize has been paid in respect of an entry in a public lottery, the entitlement to the prize must not be questioned on the ground that it was not payable by reason of subsection (2).
(4) In this section—
"scheme" includes plan, contract, arrangement, agreement or undertaking.