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ONTARIO REGULATION 198/00

made under the

Ontario Lottery and gaming corporation act, 1999

Made: March 21, 2000
Filed: March 23, 2000

lottery schemes

Interpretation and Application

1. In this Regulation,

“vendor” means, with respect to a lottery scheme, a person authorized by the Corporation to sell a lottery ticket or another means of participating in the scheme.

2. This Regulation does not apply with respect to games of chance conducted at gaming premises.

Sale of Lottery Tickets, etc.

3. No person, other than the Corporation, a subsidiary of the Corporation or a vendor, shall sell to the public a lottery ticket or another means of participating in a lottery scheme.

4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no vendor shall, directly or indirectly, sell a lottery ticket or another means of participating in a lottery scheme for a price other than,

(a) in the case of a lottery ticket, the face amount shown on the ticket; or

(b) in the case of a form of electronic lottery scheme, the amount indicated on the computer terminal.

(2) The Corporation may authorize a vendor to sell a lottery ticket or another means of participating in a lottery scheme for a price other than the price required by subsection (1).

5. For the purposes of subsection 13 (2) of the Act (prohibition on sale of lottery tickets to minors), the following documents constitute the prescribed type of documentation:

1. A driver’s licence issued by the Province of Ontario that has a photograph of the person to whom the licence is issued.

2. A Canadian passport.

3. A Canadian citizenship card that has a photograph of the person to whom the card is issued.

4. A Canadian armed forces identification card.

5. A photo card issued under the Liquor Licence Act.

6. Any other document that reasonably appears to be issued by a government, that contains a photograph of the applicable person and that sets out his or her date of birth.

6. The Corporation may limit the participation of a person or group of persons in a lottery scheme.

Game Rules for a Lottery Scheme

7. (1) The Corporation shall establish game rules that govern the conduct and management of a lottery scheme.

(2) The game rules may govern any promotional scheme relating to a lottery scheme.

(3) The Corporation shall keep a copy of the game rules for lottery schemes at its head office and shall make a copy of the game rules for a lottery scheme available to a person who requests it.

8. If the Corporation conducts and manages a lottery scheme on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Ontario under an agreement, the Corporation shall do so in accordance with game rules established in accordance with the agreement.

9. (1) Every person who participates in a lottery scheme is bound by the game rules governing the scheme.

(2) It is a condition of participating in a lottery scheme that the participant agrees to be bound by the game rules governing the scheme.

(3) Every vendor who sells a lottery ticket or another means of participating in a particular lottery scheme is bound by the game rules governing the scheme.

Prizes

10. A person is not entitled to claim a prize in a lottery scheme if,

(a) the person is or was ineligible to participate in the scheme;

(b) the ticket or other evidence of participation or attempted participation is unissued, not paid for, illegible, mutilated, altered, counterfeited or forged in whole or in part; or

(c) the ticket or other evidence of participation or attempted participation is defective, misprinted, incomplete or produced in error.

11. (1) It is a condition for collecting a prize in a lottery scheme that the participant satisfy the Corporation that the participant is a winner.

(2) The participant is not eligible to collect the prize unless he or she agrees to the following conditions:

1. The Corporation is authorized to publish in any medium the participant’s name and address and a current photograph, and the participant will not make a claim against the Corporation for broadcasting, printing, royalty or other rights.

2. The participant will give the Corporation, upon request, a valid release for the payment of the prize and will not make any further claim in respect of that prize.

12. (1) The Corporation shall not pay a prize or a purported prize in a lottery scheme if the payment of the prize could cause the total amount of the prizes to be won in the scheme, as set out in the game rules for the scheme, to be exceeded.

(2) Subsection (1) applies despite any statement to the contrary that is set out in or implied by an advertisement, a lottery ticket or another form of evidence of participation in the lottery scheme.

13. (1) The Corporation shall establish and maintain a reserve fund for prizes in lottery schemes.

(2) The Corporation shall maintain in the reserve fund an amount at least equal to the sum of the prizes available to be won in each lottery scheme to which the fund relates.

(3) The monetary value of a prize that is not a money prize is the cost to the Corporation of the prize, as calculated by the Corporation.

(4) No payments may be made from the reserve fund except payments of prizes to winners in the lottery schemes to which the fund relates.

 

Cancellation, etc., of a Lottery Scheme

14. (1) The Corporation may suspend, recall, withdraw or cancel all or part of a lottery scheme at any time before the period for claiming prizes expires.

(2) The Corporation may impose such conditions on the suspension, recall, withdrawal or cancellation of all or part of a lottery scheme as it considers appropriate.

(3) Upon suspending, recalling, withdrawing or cancelling all or part of a lottery scheme, the Corporation shall not pay to any participant in the scheme an amount greater than the amount the participant paid to a vendor in order to participate in the scheme.

(4) Upon suspending, recalling, withdrawing or cancelling all or part of a lottery scheme, the Corporation is not liable to reimburse a participant in the scheme unless the the participant’s ticket or such other evidence of his, her or its participation or attempted participation as the Corporation may require is returned to the Corporation.