Singapore legislation

Regulation 4

of Gambling Control (Fundraisers — Class Licence) Order 2022

Regulation 4

Class licence for fundraiser lotteries

Subregulation 1

Unless exempt under section 128 of the Act, every eligible person who provides a gambling service by conducting a fundraiser lottery at any time on or after 2 August 2022 in or from any place in Singapore, is subject by virtue of this Order to a class licence in connection with the provision of such a gambling service.

Subregulation 2

Where a fundraiser lottery is conducted, at any time on or after 2 August 2022 in or from any place in Singapore, by a gambling service agent acting under the authority of an eligible person, the gambling service agent is also subject by virtue of this Order to a class licence in connection with the provision of a gambling service by conducting that fundraiser lottery.

Subregulation 3

However, despite sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), an eligible person, and the gambling service agent of an eligible person, are not, by virtue of this Order, subject to a class licence for a fundraiser lottery conducted on or after 2 August 2022 by the eligible person or the gambling service agent —

(a)

in 2022 or in any subsequent year; and

(b)

for a benefitting organisation (who may or may not also be that eligible person),if, within that same year, one other fundraiser lottery has earlier been conducted for the benefit of the same benefitting organisation.

Subregulation 4

To avoid doubt, any fundraiser lottery conducted in or from any place in Singapore between 1 January 2022 and 1 August 2022 (both dates inclusive) must be reckoned for the purposes of sub‑paragraph (3).