Phone-in prize shows/TV-Gewinnspiele eventuell ungesetzlich in England?
am 29.08.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
Times Online reports that phone-in prize shows may be closed or run as lotteries.
Apparently any game that charges a fee to play and does not involve skill is a lottery. And to run a lottery, you have to get a licence and give 20 per cent of the revenue to charity.
The current games are allowed to call themselves prize competitions if there is an alternative method of playing free of charge, without exorbitant phone charges. There is an alternative method - playing over the Internet - but this possibly is not advertised enough.
The Gambling Commission could try to shut down the channels for potentially breaking the 1976 Lotteries and Amusements Act. However, its latest consultation document, Prize Competitions and Free Draws, indicates that laws due in September next year are much tougher.
It says: “Many of the commercial schemes which currently operate as competitions are, in the commission’s view, [complex lotteries]. Good examples are the TV quiz shows on …
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