According to Article 38 of the Regulations on Lottery Management, anyone who issues or sells lottery tickets without authorization, or issues or sells overseas lottery tickets in People's Republic of China (PRC), which constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, it shall be punished by the public security organ according to law; If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.

Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:

(a) operating a franchise or monopoly commodity or other commodities whose operation is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission;

(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;

(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;

(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.

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Article 6 Welfare lottery issuing institutions and sports lottery issuing institutions (hereinafter referred to as lottery issuing institutions) established by the State Council civil affairs departments and sports administrative departments in accordance with the law are respectively responsible for the issuance and sales of national welfare lottery and sports lottery. Welfare lottery sales organizations and sports lottery sales organizations (hereinafter referred to as lottery sales organizations) established by the civil affairs departments and sports administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are responsible for the welfare lottery and sports lottery sales within their respective administrative areas.

Article 7 Where a lottery issuing institution applies for opening or stopping specific varieties of welfare lottery and sports lottery (hereinafter referred to as lottery varieties), or applies for changing the examination and approval items of lottery varieties, it shall report to the financial department of the State Council for approval in accordance with the procedures stipulated in these Regulations. According to the needs of the healthy development of the lottery market, the financial department of the State Council examines the applications of lottery issuers in accordance with the principles of rational planning of the lottery market and lottery variety structure and strict control of lottery risks.

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