5Gaming activities

5 Gaming activities

5 Gaming activities

(1) In this Act—

gaming activity means—

(a) a game of chance or a game partly of skill and partly of chance, or

(b) without limiting paragraph (a), the award of any prize by lot or on the basis of a chance contingency related to a horse race, sporting event or competition, or

(c) any activity, event, scheme or other matter prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition as a gaming activity.

participant in a gaming activity means—

(a) a person who enters or competes in, or otherwise participates in, a gaming activity, or

(b) a person on behalf of whom another person enters or competes, or otherwise participates, in a gaming activity.

(2) This Act applies to a gaming activity only if it involves the sale or other disposal of property or services, or a promise to sell or otherwise dispose of property or services, to participants in the activity or at the direction of the participants.

(3) This Act applies to a gaming activity whether or not consideration is paid by or on behalf of a person to become a participant.

(4) The regulations may exempt a game, other activity, event, scheme or other matter from being a gaming activity to which this Act, or any provision of this Act, applies.

(5) Any such exemption may be unconditional or subject to conditions.