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Public Lotteries Act 1996
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38 Publicity concerning prizewinners
38 Publicity concerning prizewinners
(1) A licensee who publishes, or causes to be published, the identity of a person who claims a prize in a public lottery and has requested anonymity is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) The regulations may prescribe the manner in which an entrant in a public lottery may request anonymity.
(3) A person may at any time revoke a request for anonymity.
(4) This section does not prevent a licensee from publishing, or causing to be published, the venue or geographic location at which a prizewinning ticket was sold and the amount of a prize won.