New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC LOTTERIES ACT 1996 - SECT 38

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.