Singapore legislation
Regulation 4
Regulation 4
Customer lotteries
Subregulation 1
Any business organisation which provides a remote gambling service for individuals to participate in its customer lottery by the use of remote communication is exempt from sections 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Act.
Subregulation 2
A lottery is a customer lottery of a business organisation if —
the lottery is a public lottery conducted by the business organisation for the purpose of promoting the sale of any product or service (other than a gambling service) sold or supplied by that business organisation in the course of business in Singapore;
receipts for the lottery are sold or supplied only to a person who has purchased that product or service (called a customer);
no charge is collected by the business organisation for any receipt for the lottery except a reasonable charge for the value of the product or service where sold or supplied;
the lottery is organised in such a way as to ensure that no profits are made by the business organisation from the lottery;
before the start of any draw of the lottery, the material information in sub-paragraph (3) about the lottery is given to customers or to the general public in the manner specified in sub-paragraph (4);
at least 4 weeks before any advertisement giving publicity to, or otherwise promoting or that is intended to promote, the lottery is published, the material information in sub‑paragraph (3) about the lottery is given to Head SCPB CID, together with a copy of the material information given or to be given to the customers or to the general public;
no person who performs any of the activities in section 5(4) of the Act in connection with providing a remote gambling service for individuals to participate in the customer lottery is a person in the business of providing a remote gambling service;
the arrangements for the lottery do not include a roll‑over; and
the standard conditions are satisfied in relation to that lottery.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of sub‑paragraph (2)(e) and (f), the material information about a customer lottery are —
the name and address of the business organisation providing a remote gambling service for individuals to participate in the customer lottery;
the arrangements for the lottery, including —
the date and time of the draw (or each draw) of the lottery; and
the place for the conduct, and the methodology, of the draw (or each draw) of the lottery; and
the prizes and manner of their allocation.
Subregulation 4
The material information about a customer lottery must be given in the following manner:
by publishing on printed publicity material that is available to, or on an online location that is accessible by every customer to whom a receipt for that lottery is issued;
if the total value of prizes for the customer lottery exceeds $10,000, given to the general public by publishing the material information in a newspaper, or on an online location that is accessible by members of the public.