Trade promotions
A business can conduct a free-entry trade promotion lottery, where winners are determined by chance, to promote its products or services. A business may be a sole proprietor, a partnership or a company. A business must hold a permit for this lottery.
For more information about this type of lottery see our Trade promotion lotteries fact sheet. If you have questions email lottery.inquiries@olgr.nsw.gov.au or telephone (02) 9995 0666.
In the Trade promotion lotteries fact sheet you will find out about:
- Ticketing
- Permits
- Keeping records
- Using SMS/MMS facilities
- Conducting lotteries
- Prizes
- Advertising and promoting
- Rules and scrutiny of the draw
- Pre-determined, instant win, scratch and bingo-style lotteries
- Health regulations
- Advertising restrictions
- Involvement of charities and not-for-profit organisations
- Card jackpot games
- What to do with prize results
You can lodge an application for a trade promotion lottery permit:
- online at www.licence.nsw.gov.au
- or by mailing us a completed application form (PDF 1.3MB).
We encourage you to lodge online because it delivers a better, faster service to customers at a discounted fee.
Use our Customer assistance guide for licence account holders (PDF 1.5MB) if your organisation has an established account with the Government Licensing Service.
Use our Customer assistance guide for first-time applicants (PDF 1.8MB) if your organisation does not have an account with the Government Licensing Service.
Use our transition guide (PDF 2.5MB) to compare this service with our now-retired online lodgement service.
- Schedule of winners of prizes over $10,000 (Word 36kb) - For competitions with an individual prize valued at over $10,000, complete and retain this form - you do not need to send the form to us.
- Scrutiniser′s declaration form (Word 26kb) - For competitions with a total prize value over $10,000 per draw, a scrutiniser must witness the prize draw. The scrutiniser must also complete and retain this form - you do not need to send the form to us.
