Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Commission may
pay or deliver a prize won by a participant in a lottery conducted by it on
receipt of the winning entry, receipted entry form, or other ticket or
evidence of participation provided to a participant by the Commission for the
particular lottery, and may require the participant, where appropriate, to
endorse that entry, entry form, etc., with the participant’s name,
address and signature.
(2) If a participant
alleges that a prize has been won in a lottery, but that the appropriate
evidence of participation in that lottery has been lost or destroyed, the
Commission may pay or deliver the prize won by the participant, if the
participant satisfies the Commission that the participant is entitled to that
prize.
(3) The Commission is
not obliged to satisfy itself that —
(a) the
purported participant presenting evidence of a winning entry, etc., is
lawfully entitled to claim possession or ownership of that evidence;
(b) any
signature presented as a part of a verification process is genuine; or
(c) the
purported participant is not an infant or person under other legal disability.
[(4) deleted]
(5) Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, whether relating to infants or to persons under other
legal disability or otherwise, payment or delivery of a prize by the
Commission under this section constitutes full satisfaction by, and a full and
valid discharge to, the Commission.
[Section 15 amended by No. 26 of 1998
s. 13.]