Circular No. 75/2013/TT-BTC: 05 principles of printing lottery tickets in Vietnam

Lottery companies, Vietnam computing lottery one-member limited liability company and relevant organizations and individuals that print lottery tickets must comply with the principles specified in Article 11 of Circular No. 75/2013/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, specifically as follows:

- It must be sufficient quantity according to each sign of lottery ticket and conformable with the structure of prizes as notified about issuance.

- The principles of printing lottery tickets for each type of lottery ticket are prescribed as follows:

+ When printing conventional lottery tickets, it is required to have the storage stub for controlling lottery tickets of organizations issuing lottery; In case the printed lottery tickets have reflective signs or system of barcode, system of encrypted code meeting requirement of control, management and distinguish between true lottery ticket and fake lottery tickets, ensuring strictly in printing lottery tickets, having no ability happening fraudulency, the printing of lottery tickets may not require storage of stub of ticket;

+ When printing bingo lottery tickets, it is required to have stub of tickets or storage part for recording and comparing the numbers already selected by customers for participation in winning prizes;

+ The scratching lottery tickets for instant results:

• must have an encryption key to control and compare in defining prizes. The covering substance at the position prescribed for scratching and not scratching must ensure that the inside content is viewless by naked eyes under all luminous intensity or other machines or devices; not self-stripped or distorted in normal conditions;

• For the printing of the scratching lottery tickets for instant results, the print facilities must have specialized equipment and software programs to randomly allocate prizes. Software for allocation of prizes must have a system of encryption keys so as to prevent illegally accessing and repairing. Whole process of printing the prizes is recorded, copied and saved on separate devices, assured for absolute secrecy and that it is permitted to see recorded results only when having a request in writing of lottery companies placing orders for printing lottery tickets and competent representatives of the print facilities. The lottery companies placing order for printing the tickets and the print facilities shall coordinate in set encoders and decoders of the safety key codes for the lottery tickets winning prizes;

+ The tearing lottery tickets for instant results must ensure that the inside content is viewless when illuminated by naked eyes under all luminous intensity or by other machines, devices and means. The lottery tickets must ensure the requirement on preventing forging and misusing to use for recirculation and sale for many times.

- In case where the regional lottery Council issue lottery tickets under the linkage mechanism, the selection of facility printing lottery tickets must be perform according to form of publicly bidding. Criteria, process for selecting facility printing lottery tickets are specified in the operational regulation of the regional lottery Council.

- The printing of lottery tickets must be performed through economic contract, in which clearly define quantity of lottery tickets for printing; technical requirements for printing lottery tickets; duties and benefits of parties; mechanism to control the process of printing so as to ensure not happening fraudulence; handling of disputes, compensation and other agreements to meet the management requirements of parties.

- Organizations issuing lottery tickets are responsible for reporting to the Taxation Department of provinces, cities (where performing tax obligation) about name of facility printing lottery tickets, signs of lottery tickets (serial numbers of lottery tickets), quantity and par value of each kind of lottery tickets in each time of printing for monitoring and management.

View other provisions at Circular No. 75/2013/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, effective from October 01, 2013.

Thu Ba

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