If you are running a consumer promotion, we strongly recommend against allowing employees of the promoter to also enter. If an employee wins this brings the promotion into disrepute and consumers may complain that the promotion is rigged resulting in negative PR for the promoter.
Furthermore, in NSW, SA and NT it is strictly NOT permitted to open entries to employees of the promoter, see below:
NSW: Clause 25 (1)(k) of the Community Gaming Regulations 2020: prohibit the following persons from participating in the gaming activity— (i) a person conducting the gaming activity including any person who determines who is to win a prize in the gaming activity, (ii) a person involved in the management of any benefiting organisation.
NT: The trade promotion rules for NT specify: no employees of the business, or their family members, may participate (see https://nt.gov.au/industry/gambling/gambling/lotteries-community-gambling/apply-to-run-a-trade-lottery) .
SA: · Clause 31 of the SA Lotteries Regulations stipulates that an organisation (being the Promoter), or a member of the management committee of an organisation, must not enter or participate in a prescribed lottery conducted by the organisation or management committee (see https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/__legislation/lz/c/r/lotteries%20regulations%202021/current/2021.162.auth.pdf)
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