Singapore legislation
Regulation 3
Regulation 3
Public lotteries conducted by business organisations
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:
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;
where the total value of prizes exceeds $10,000, such information shall also be published in a newspaper; and
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.