NSW Lotteries

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NSW Lotteries
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Formed1931
Jurisdiction Government of New South Wales
Website thelott.com

New South Wales Lotteries, (usually marketed and referred to as NSW Lotteries or the Lott ) is a corporation owned by the Government of New South Wales in Australia. Since 2 March 2010, it has been operated by Tatts Group Limited under a 40-year exclusive licence. [1] It runs games of chance through a network of agents, most of which are newsagencies. It falls under the government portfolio of Gaming and Racing and is governed by the Public Lotteries Act 1996.

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On 1 June 2016 the NSW Lotteries brand became one of the four Tatts Group jurisdictional brands to be incorporated into a national lottery brand called ‘the Lott’. The other brands being Tatts Lottery, Golden Casket and South Australian Lotteries.

NSW Lotteries runs some of its lotteries itself and syndicates a number of others run by interstate lottery organisations. The lotteries offered are:

NSW Lotteries also sells various scratchcard games, under the brand 'Instant Scratch-its'.

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References

  1. "NSW Lotteries sold to Tatts in $1 billion deal". March 2010.
  2. "the Lott - Australia's Official Lotteries". www.thelott.com.