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Unread 12-09-2008, 10:47   #210
zag
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Default How to sink the pay parking issue

If anyone has a few years and some legal brain power to spare it could be worth questioning whether IE are running an unlicensed lottery or gambling emporium in their car parks.

If the weekly ticket doesn't guarantee you a space, then are you in fact buying a ticket which entitles you to a chance to win a prize of a space ? Is this not a lottery or raffle requiring licensing ? Alternatively, because you can increase your chances of 'winning' by using your skill and arriving early, then maybe this is betting ?

Either way, it could be argued that they need a license. Now, if you could get a refund for unused/unavailable parking time it might be different, or if you could carry unused parking time over to another week it could be different.
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