National Lottery Act, 1986
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Independent scrutiny of National Lottery held by Company. |
6.—(1) Whenever the National Lottery is held by the Company, the Minister may from time to time appoint one or more persons whose functions shall be to examine the conduct generally of the National Lottery and to report thereon to the Minister, and for those purposes, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to investigate— | |
(a) its organisation, management and procedures, | ||
(b) the system for selecting winning tickets and the methods employed to prevent fraud in, or the manipulation of, that system and to ensure its fairness, accuracy, efficiency and reliability, | ||
(c) the manner of the selection, organisation and supervision of staff of the Company engaged in— | ||
(i) the handling or processing of National Lottery tickets or numbers for National Lottery tickets and the selection of National Lottery tickets to be winning tickets, and | ||
(ii) the installation, operation, maintenance, repair or supervision of computers or other electronic devices, or devices of any kind, used for the purposes of the National Lottery, | ||
(d) the installation, operation, maintenance, repair and supervision of computers or other electronic devices, or devices of any kind, used for the purposes of the National Lottery, | ||
(e) the operation of this Act and any regulations thereunder in relation to the National Lottery and whether the provisions of this Act and any such regulations are being complied with in relation thereto. | ||
(2) A person appointed under this section shall report to the Minister— | ||
(a) at such intervals (not being intervals of more than one year) as he thinks desirable in relation to the matters specified in subsection (1) of this section, and | ||
(b) from time to time in relation to any other matters as respects the National Lottery which he considers should be so reported or which are specified by the Minister. | ||
(3) For the purposes of his functions under this Act, a person appointed under this section may enter and remain on the premises of the Company at all reasonable times and shall have access to and may inspect any National Lottery tickets or any records kept by the Company (whether in legible form or otherwise) relating to the National Lottery and may take copies of or of extracts from the records. | ||
(4) Every director of the Company, and every employee of the Company who is concerned in the National Lottery, shall give to a person appointed under this section such information in his possession relating to the National Lottery as may be requested by that person. | ||
(5) A person appointed under this section may, if he so thinks fit, make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the National Lottery or its conduct (including a recommendation that the Minister should appoint a manager in relation to the Company under section 30 , or should give a direction to the Company in relation to a specified matter, under section 29 of this Act). | ||
(6) The remuneration and any expenses payable to a person appointed by the Minister under this section shall be paid by the Minister out of the Fund. | ||
(7) A person who fails or refuses to comply with a request duly made under subsection (4) of this section in relation to information in his possession or who obstructs or hinders a person appointed under subsection (1) of this section in the performance of his functions under this section, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000. |