Regulations, 1998

LoN. 37 of 1998

GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES ACT

(CAP. 292)

Government Lotteries (Super Five) (Amendment)

Regulations, 1998

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 and 4 of the

Government Lotteries Act, the Minister of Finance and Commerce

has made the following regulations:-

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Government Citation and

Lotteries (Super Five) (Amendment) Regulations, 1998, and shall commencement.

be read and construed as one with the Government Lotteries (Super

Five) Regulations, 1990, hereinafter referred to as "the principal L.N.2ofl990.

regulations" .

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 12th

February, 1998 with regard to tickets sold for the lottery draw of

the 18th February, 1998 and to subsequent draws.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends regulation

2 of the principal

as follows

regulations.

(a) in the definition of "draw" for the words "thirty-six

(36)" there shall be substituted the words "thirty-nine (39)";

(b) in the definition of "game" for the words "thirty-six"

there shall be substituted the words "thirty-nine"; and

(c) in paragraph (e) of the definition of "ticket" for the

words "thirty-six (36)" there shall be substituted the words

"thirty-nine (39)".

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations for the words Amends regulation

"thirty-six (36)" there shall be substituted the words "thirty-nine ~~~::CiPai

(39)",

In paragraph (3) of regulation 6 of the principal regulations Amends regulation

for the words "thirty-six (36)" there shall be substituted the words ~~::~~CiPai

"thirty-nine (39)".

Regulation 8 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows:-

(a) at the end of paragraph (2) thereof, there shall be

added the following proviso:-

"Provided that the minimum payment to a Division 3

winner shall not be less than eight Malta Liri (Lm8)."; and

(b) at the end of paragraph (6) thereof, there shall be

added the following proviso

"Provided that when in a particular draw the prize for

Division I exceeds the amount of two hundred thousand

Malta liri (Lm200,000) and in that particular draw there is

no winner of the prize of that Division, then the total prize

fund of that Division in the following draw shall not be

augmented, and the prize fund of the game immediately

following that draw and of any other following game until

the prize of Division 1 is not won, shall be distributed as

follows

Division 1 - Zero per centum (0%) of the prize

fund, in such manner that the prize of Division 1 will

remain the amount of the previous draw when this

prize had just exceeded the amount of two hundred

thousand Malta liri (Lm200,000);

Division 2 - Thirty per centum (30%) of the prize

fund;

Division 3 - Seventy per centum (70%) of the

prize fund.".