Private Lotteries Act 2011 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Duties, Offences and Penalties
21. Penalty for promoting private lottery without permit, etc.
Feedback & supportAny person who promotes or conducts any private lottery without a valid permit shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
private lottery
“private lottery” means a lottery in which tickets or chances are offered for sale only to members of a society which is established for purposes not connected with gaming, wagering or lotteries and such number of guests of each member as the Minister for Home Affairs may prescribe by regulations;
if one or more fruit machines are used in the promotion or conduct of the lottery, to a fine of not less than $10,000 for each machine (but not exceeding in the aggregate $200,000) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both; or
in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.
Any person who promotes or conducts any private lottery —
during the period of suspension of the permit granted in respect of that lottery; or
in contravention of any condition of the permit granted in respect of that lottery,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
Any person selling, offering for sale, giving, delivering or collecting tickets in a private lottery which is promoted, held or managed outside Singapore, or found in possession of 10 or more tickets or of any account, memorandum or record of stakes or wagers in or relating to the private lottery, is presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be conducting a private lottery then in progress.
Where one or more fruit machines are found on a part of any premises used by a society for its purposes, being a part that is accessible to members of the society, the occupier of those premises is presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be promoting a private lottery to members of the society.
society
“society” includes a club, an institution, an organisation or other association or body of persons by whatever name called, and each local or affiliated branch or section of a society is to be regarded as a separate and distinct society;
Any person abetting the commission of an offence referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to the punishment specified in that subsection.