{"id":2941,"date":"2025-09-18T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/when-do-you-need-a-lottery-permit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:08:04","slug":"when-do-you-need-a-lottery-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/when-do-you-need-a-lottery-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"When do you need a lottery permit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When do you need a lottery permit?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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If you want to organize a lottery for your sports club, school, association or foundation, you must take the permit requirements into account. Depending on the amount of the prize package, you apply for a permit from the municipality or from the Netherlands Gambling Authority (KSA). <\/p>\n

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Lottery permit from the municipality (prize package up to \u20ac4,500)<\/h3>\n


Is the total value of the prizes and premiums \u20ac4,500 or less?
Then you apply for a permit from the municipality where the draw takes place.<\/p>\n

Example: you are organizing a lottery during a sports tournament with a prize package of \u20ac3,000. In this case, you arrange the permit through your municipality. <\/p>\n

Municipalities usually apply a minimum application period of 8 weeks before the draw. They also ask for a clear description of the purpose, the prizes and the draw. <\/p>\n

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Lottery permit from the Netherlands Gambling Authority (prize package above \u20ac4,500)<\/h3>\n


Is the total value of the prize package higher than \u20ac4,500?
Then you need a permit from the Netherlands Gambling Authority (KSA).<\/p>\n

Example: you are organizing a national lottery with prizes worth \u20ac10,000. In that case, the application must be submitted via the KSA. <\/p>\n

The KSA sets strict requirements: the proceeds must benefit a cause of general interest (such as sports, culture, care or education) and the costs must not be disproportionately high compared to the proceeds.<\/p>\n


Important conditions<\/h3>\n


Regardless of where you apply for the permit, these basic rules always apply:<\/p>\n

The proceeds must be intended for a social or idealistic purpose.<\/p>\n

A large part of the income must actually go to that goal (municipalities often use a minimum of 40%).<\/p>\n

The draw must be fair and verifiable.<\/p>\n

You must provide financial accountability afterwards regarding the income and expenditure.<\/p>\n


Summary: which permit do you need?<\/h3>\n


Up to \u20ac4,500 in prizes \u2192 application to the municipality<\/p>\n

More than \u20ac4,500 in prizes \u2192 application to the Netherlands Gambling Authority<\/p>\n

Make sure you submit the application well in advance so that you can organize your lottery without stress<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When do you need a lottery permit? If you want to organize a lottery for your sports club, school, association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongecategoriseerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loteraise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}