Tasmania
Raffle rules for Tasmania — and the online-only exemption that simplifies things.
Tasmania has a helpful simplification for online raffles, which makes it one of the easier places to include.
The online-only exemption
If your raffle is online-only — no physical paper tickets sold in person in Tasmania — it's exempt from Tasmania's raffle regulations. In practice, that means an online raffle run through RaffleLink can include Tasmanian buyers without a Tasmanian permit.
The catch: mixing in-person and online
The exemption is for online-only raffles. If you also sell paper tickets in person in Tasmania, those in-person sales must follow Tasmania's raffle rules. So the clean path for an online platform like RaffleLink is to keep Tasmanian sales online.
If you sell in person
If your organisation is based in Tasmania and you turn on in-person selling — a Ticket Booth or paper tickets — Tasmania's rules come into play, and RaffleLink applies them as you build:
- A minor gaming permit is required once a raffle sold in person has a total prize value over $10,000.
- Cash prizes are capped at $5,000 for a permit-free raffle sold in person. Go over, and you'll be told to reduce the cash prizes or obtain a permit.
Turning on in-person sales for a live raffle that would break those rules is blocked, rather than quietly letting you slip out of compliance.
What RaffleLink does
For an online-only raffle, RaffleLink treats Tasmanian buyers under the online-only exemption — nothing extra to do. The moment in-person selling enters the picture for a Tasmanian organisation, the checks above apply, and your public raffle page gains the Tasmanian terms buyers are entitled to see.
The official source
Raffles in Tasmania fall under the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission (Department of Treasury and Finance). Verify the current position with them, especially if any part of your raffle is sold in person.