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Originally Posted by Vermilion Okeanos
I will just have to say... Enjoy your party, I hope I see some of you in the bonus DVD of "Making of Nightfall" from collector edition... YOU BETTER LOOK PRETTY IN THE VIDEO! j/k no pressure (who would take pressure from a random person in an online forum anyway?)
Hmm, 5 days before my birthday O.o too bad. Btw, who here actually live in washington state anyway? I am also under the impression that taxes there aren't so bad. |
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Originally Posted by KoalaMeatPie (who then deleted post after realizing it was a silly question
Anyways, the contest is not held by Canadians, why would the Canadian *laws* be implicated?
Its there, but not inforced. Like that law in Calgary where each Bar must have a rail to tie your horses to. |
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Originally Posted by KoalaMeatPie
You're thinking Washington D.C.
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
I guess that's why this is limited. We don't know if someone in Belize, Belgium, or Barbados is eligible to receive the party ticket, if he/she would need to pay taxes on the value of the beverages and food, etc. I know it sounds silly, but I am speculating that this is the reason for the regional boundaries of this contest. I have to tell you, if someone were able to afford to travel to attend from outside the region, and they were a winner, I'd try very hard to get them clearance to come to the event!
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Secondly, that "Canadian bit." Well, it seems that a certain province in Canada has a restriction that people cannot win on the basis of a submitted and judged entry. Or maybe they can and the attorney who reviewed this contest--yep, lawyer reviewed and attorney approved!--didn't realize this wasn't a random drawing. Anyway, we'll do a math question if someone from that province enters, and if they win. (It's rather far away, so it's not real likely that there will be that many who enter from there.)
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Originally Posted by Part VII of the Criminal Code of Canada
197. (1) In this Part,
“game” means a game of chance or mixed chance and skill; 202. (1) Every one commits an offence who (b) imports, makes, buys, sells, rents, leases, hires or keeps, exhibits, employs or knowingly allows to be kept, exhibited or employed in any place under his control any device or apparatus for the purpose of recording or registering bets or selling a pool, or any machine or device for gambling or betting; (c) has under his control any money or other property relating to a transaction that is an offence under this section; (g) imports or brings into Canada any information or writing that is intended or is likely to promote or be of use in gambling, book-making, pool-selling or betting on a horse-race, fight, game or sport, and where this paragraph applies it is immaterial (h) advertises, prints, publishes, exhibits, posts up, or otherwise gives notice of any offer, invitation or inducement to bet on, to guess or to foretell the result of a contest, or a result of or contingency relating to any contest; (i) wilfully and knowingly sends, transmits, delivers or receives any message by radio, telegraph, telephone, mail or express that conveys any information relating to book-making, pool-selling, betting or wagering, or that is intended to assist in book-making, pool-selling, betting or wagering; or (j) aids or assists in any manner in anything that is an offence under this section. 204. (1) Sections 201 and 202 do not apply to (a) any person or association by reason of his or their becoming the custodian or depository of any money, property or valuable thing staked, to be paid to (i) the winner of a lawful race, sport, game or exercise, (ii) the owner of a horse engaged in a lawful race, or (iii) the winner of any bets between not more than ten individuals; 206. (1) Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years who (a) makes, prints, advertises or publishes, or causes or procures to be made, printed, advertised or published, any proposal, scheme or plan for advancing, lending, giving, selling or in any way disposing of any property by lots, cards, tickets or any mode of chance whatever; (b) sells, barters, exchanges or otherwise disposes of, or causes or procures, or aids or assists in, the sale, barter, exchange or other disposal of, or offers for sale, barter or exchange, any lot, card, ticket or other means or device for advancing, lending, giving, selling or otherwise disposing of any property by lots, tickets or any mode of chance whatever; (d) conducts or manages any scheme, contrivance or operation of any kind for the purpose of determining who, or the holders of what lots, tickets, numbers or chances, are the winners of any property so proposed to be advanced, lent, given, sold or disposed of; (5) Every sale, loan, gift, barter or exchange of any property, by any lottery, ticket, card or other mode of chance depending on or to be determined by chance or lot, is void, and all property so sold, lent, given, bartered or exchanged is forfeited to Her Majesty. (7) This section applies to the printing or publishing, or causing to be printed or published, of any advertisement, scheme, proposal or plan of any foreign lottery, and the sale or offer for sale of any ticket, chance or share, in any such lottery, or the advertisement for sale of such ticket, chance or share, and the conducting or managing of any such scheme, contrivance or operation for determining the winners in any such lottery. 207. (1) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Part relating to gaming and betting, it is lawful (a) for the government of a province, either alone or in conjunction with the government of another province, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme in that province, or in that and the other province, in accordance with any law enacted by the legislature of that province; (b) for a charitable or religious organization, pursuant to a licence issued by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of a province or by such other person or authority in the province as may be specified by the Lieutenant Governor in Council thereof, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme in that province if the proceeds from the lottery scheme are used for a charitable or religious object or purpose; (d) for any person, pursuant to a licence issued by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of a province or by such other person or authority in the province as may be specified by the Lieutenant Governor in Council thereof, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme at a public place of amusement in that province if (i) the amount or value of each prize awarded does not exceed five hundred dollars, and (ii) the money or other valuable consideration paid to secure a chance to win a prize does not exceed two dollars; (f) for any person, pursuant to a licence issued by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of a province or such other person or authority in the province as may be designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council thereof, to conduct and manage in the province a lottery scheme that is authorized to be conducted and managed in one or more other provinces where the authority by which the lottery scheme was first authorized to be conducted and managed consents thereto; |
