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Common Gaming Houses Act

(Chapter 49, Section 24)

Common Gaming Houses (Exemption) Notification

N 4

G.N. No. S 428/1996

REVISED EDITION 1997

(15th June 1997)

[30th September 1996]

Citation

1. This Notification may be cited as the Common Gaming Houses (Exemption) Notification.

Definition

2. In this Notification, “lottery” includes any game, method, device, scheme or competition whereby money or money’s worth is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot or mixed chance and skill but does not include any game determined purely by skill, whether the game is held, drawn, exercised or managed within or outside Singapore.

Public lotteries conducted by business organisations

3. Any public lottery conducted by a business organisation for the purposes of promoting the sale of any product or service shall be exempted from the provisions of the Act if the following conditions and the additional conditions set out in paragraph 5 are complied with:

(a)	the methodology of the promotion, the details of the prizes to be distributed, their manner of distribution, and if the winners are determined solely or partly by a draw, the time, date and place of the draw, shall be disclosed in printed publicity material, copies of which shall be freely available to all participants and 2 copies of which shall be sent to the Head, Gambling Suppression Branch, Criminal Investigation Department, by AR registered post at least 4 weeks prior to the launch of the promotion;
(b)	where the total value of prizes exceeds $10,000, such information shall also be published in a newspaper; and
(c)	the participants shall not be required to pay any money apart from payment for the product or service purchased and any increase in the cost of the product or service marketed shall not be attributable to the cost of conducting the lottery.