Lotteries (Control) Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

No. 17.] Lotteries (Control). [1962.

LOTTERIES (CONTROL).

11° Elizabeth II., No. XVII.

No. 17 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Lotteries (Control)

Act, 1954-1960.

[Assented to 1st October, 1962.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and citation 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Lotteries

(Control) Act Amendment Act, 1962.

(2) In this Act the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1954-

1960, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1954-

1962.] Lotteries (Control). [No. 17.

2.    Section ten of the principal Act is amended, landed.

by adding, after the word, "address", being the last word in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (d) of subsection (1), the passage, "; but, where the person sets up that the ticket is lost or destroyed, the Commission may, on being satisfied, by statutory or other declaration conforming with, and valid under, the law of the place where it is made, that the person was the holder of the ticket and that it is lost or destroyed, pay to that person the prize money in respect of that ticket".

S.18

Section eighteen of the principal Act is amended by adding, immediately after the word, "purposes", being the last word in subsection (3), the passage, "or for the promotion and advance- ment of social welfare, including public recreation and sport". amended.

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