BINTULU: Bintulu Development Authority (BDA) will be enforcing a prohibition of purchase and sales of illegal lottery tickets at all eateries here beginning 10 July.
BDA Assistant General Manager (environment section), Wan Ibrahim Wan Ali said the prohibition also applied to all eateries in Tatau and Sebauh.
“BDA will be putting up notices of the prohibition on all eateries starting next Monday,” he told a press conference here, yesterday.
He disclosed that the prohibition was a new requirement for application and issuance of trading licence.
“The notice has to be displayed at all times, similar to displaying the trading licence. Should the notice is damaged, food outlet operators can replace it with a new one,” he said.
Selling lottery tickets at food outlets is an offence under the Open Gaming House Act, 1953.
Under the Act, food outlet operators can be fined up to RM50,000 and jailed up to three years while lottery sellers can be fined up to RM200,000 and jailed for not more than five years, if convicted.
As for the buyers, they can be fined up to RM5,000 or jailed six months or both, if convicted.
