The National Lottery
The National Lottery is an institution regulated by Act of Parliament. We cover the National Lottery draws as a service to our audience who buy tickets and benefit from the grants. However we must ensure that our coverage is not seen as directly advertising the lottery or the purchase of tickets. To achieve this we should:
- ensure the trails for programmes which carry National Lottery draws or games are promotions for our programmes and not the National Lottery.
- avoid the use of any elements of lottery advertising or promotions in programmes covering lottery draws, or in trails for National Lottery programmes.
- ensure the purchase of a lottery ticket is not a pre-requisite for someone to appear on, or be in the audience for, our lottery programmes.
We must exclude children under sixteen from the studio audience of a lottery programme and lottery programmes should not be specifically aimed at children under sixteen.
Programmes, apart from those covering the lottery draws, may wish to carry items about the National Lottery. Programmes should not use library material, other than pictures, sound or stills of the draws themselves to illustrate stories about the National Lottery or lottery operator.
Any proposal to use library material featuring presenters, titles, trails or lottery programme content other than pictures or sound of the actual draws must be referred to Editorial Policy. It is also advisable to consult Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property Department (CL&IP) about the legal restrictions on the use of lottery logos and library pictures from lottery programmes.