10. Every licence shall be subject to the following conditions: -
| (1) no notice or advertisement of the competition promoted or conducted under the authority of the licence shall in any material particular be inconsistent with or repugnant to any provision of the licence or any statement in the entry forms issued in respect of the competition; |
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| (2) entries in the competition shall be made only by means of entry forms; |
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| (3) entries in the competition from persons outside Ceylon shall not be accepted; |
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| (4) the entrance fee for each entry in the competition shall not exceed the entrance fee specified in the licence; |
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| (5) no entry form in the competition shall be sold or offered for sale outside Ceylon; |
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| (6) entries in the competition shall be closed on such date as may be specified in the licence; |
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| (7) the competition shall be concluded on such date as may be specified in the licence or on any other date to which it may be postponed by the Permanent Secretary for good reasons upon application made in that behalf by the licensee; |
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| (8) a notice stating the number of each winning entry form in the competition and the name and address of the winner thereof shall, forthwith after the result of the competition is known, be published by the licensee in a Sinhala daily newspaper, a Tamil daily newspaper and an English daily newspaper circulating in Ceylon, and copies of such notice shall be sent by the licensee to the Permanent Secretary and the Inspector-General of Police: |
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| (9) the following amounts may be deducted from the proceeds of the competition:-
| | (a) as expenses of the competition an amount not exceeding such sum or such proportion of the proceeds of the competition as may be specified in the licence; | | |
| | (b) an amount equal to the total value of such money prizes in the competition as are provided out of the proceeds of the competition; | | |
| | (c) an amount equal to the total actual cost or value of such other prizes in the competition as have not been donated by any person for the purposes of the competition; and | | |
| | (d) any tax payable under this Act; | | |
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| (10) proper books of account relating to the competition shall be kept by the licensee; |
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| (11) such books and all other books and documents relating to the competition shall be made available by the licensee at all reasonable times for the inspection of any officer authorized in that behalf by the Permanent Secretary or the Inspector-General of Police throughout the period of the promotion or conduct of the competition and for a further period of twelve months reckoned from the date of the conclusion of the competition; |
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| (12) a statement of accounts relating to the competition duly audited and certified by an accountant shall, within a period of six months reckoned from the date of the conclusion of the competition, be furnished by the licensee to the Permanent Secretary and to the Inspector-General of Police; and |
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| (13) such other conditions as the Minister may deem fit to insert in the licence, including in any case where the licensee is a society, a condition restricting entries in the competition or each of the competitions specified in the licence to members of the society. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts