Section 85A: Remittance of money into Lotto Fund and Consolidated
This section is inserted by Act No 18 of 2016, section 25.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
85A. Remittance of money into Lotto Fund and Consolidated
Fund
(1) On receipt of the proportion of the net proceeds
referred to in sections 71(3)(c) and 85B(3), the Director-General
shall, as soon as is practicable –
(a) remit 50 per cent, or such other percentage as
may be prescribed, of the net proceeds into the
Lotto Fund to finance projects and schemes
in respect of community development,
education, health, sports, culture, heritage or
arts, and for reimbursement of public debt of
Government and for such other purposes as
may be prescribed; and
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(b) remit the remaining percentage of the
proportion of the net proceeds into the
Consolidated Fund.
(k) in the newly renumbered section 85B, by repealing subsection
(4);
(l) in section 94A, in paragraph (a), by deleting the words
“items 7 and 13” and replacing them by the words “a licence
running”;
(m) in section 96, in subsection (5), by inserting, after the word
“dies”, the words “or is incapacitated”;
(n) in Part XXIII, in the heading, by inserting, after the word
“DUTIES”, the words “, LEVY”;
(o) by repealing section 114 and replacing it by the following
section –
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Questions this section answers
- What percentage of lotto net proceeds goes to the Lotto Fund rather than the Consolidated Fund?
- What can money from the Lotto Fund be used for?