CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 240: Definitions: lottery: lottery ticket: public lottery

2004Section 240 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

In this Chapter‐
"lottery" includes any game, method or device whereby money or money's worth is
distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be determined by chance
or lot;
"lottery ticket" includes any paper, ticket, token or other article whatsoever, which
either expressly or tacitly entitles or purports to entitle any person to receive any
money or money's worth on the happening of any event or contingency connected
with any public lottery;
"public lottery" means a lottery to which the public or any class of the public has, or
may have, access, and every lottery shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to
be a public lottery.

Cite this section

Section 240, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/240/