Northern Territory
Raffle rules for the NT — and the online-only exemption.
Like Tasmania, the Northern Territory has an exemption that makes online raffles straightforward to include.
The online-only exemption
If your raffle is online-only — no physical paper tickets sold in person in the NT — it's exempt from the Northern Territory's raffle regulations. An online raffle run through RaffleLink can include NT buyers without an NT permit.
The catch: mixing in-person and online
The exemption is for online-only raffles. If you also sell paper tickets in person in the NT, those in-person sales must follow the NT's raffle rules. The clean path for an online platform is to keep NT sales online.
If you sell in person
If your organisation is based in the Northern Territory and you turn on in-person selling — a Ticket Booth or paper tickets — the NT's rules come into play, and RaffleLink applies them as you build:
- An NT lottery permit is required once a raffle sold in person passes $5,000 in total ticket sales (a minor permit up to $20,000, a major permit above that).
- Liquor can't be the principal prize. If alcohol is your most valuable prize on a raffle sold in person, you'll be asked to make something else the top prize.
You must confirm you're an approved association
Before an NT-based organisation can sell in person in the Territory, an administrator has to confirm your status. In Settings → Verification you'll find the NT approved association card:
"Selling tickets in person (ticket booth or paper tickets) in the Northern Territory requires your organisation to be an approved association under the Gaming Control Act 1993 (NT). There is no public register to check, so an authorised administrator confirms this directly. Online-only raffles don't need it."
Tick the confirmation and choose Confirm attestation. Until you do, a raffle with in-person NT sales can't be activated — RaffleLink will point you back to that setting. (You can withdraw the attestation later if your status changes.)
A note on foreign / interstate lotteries
The NT has its own framework around lotteries operated into the Territory. For a standard online community raffle run through RaffleLink, the online-only exemption is what's relevant. If you're doing something unusual — a large commercial-scale lottery, or anything beyond a community fundraiser — check the NT rules carefully or ask us first.
What RaffleLink does
For an online raffle, RaffleLink treats NT buyers under the online-only exemption. If your plans include in-person sales in the NT, that's the point to talk to us and the regulator.
The official source
Raffles and lotteries in the NT are overseen by Licensing NT. Verify the current position with them, especially if any part of your raffle is sold in person.