b'including the level of fees, for applications for premises licences and other permissions under the Act is available to the public. Guidance relating to the calculation of fees and accounting procedures has been produced by the Secretary of State available from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (www.culture.gov.uk). Lotteries 17.5 An interesting potential income generation power for local government is contained in the Gambling Act 2005. Local authorities are entitled to operate their own lotteries but may only do so if licensed by the Gambling Commission. Authorities must commit a minimum of 20% of the proceeds from such lotteries for a purpose for which they have power to incur expenditure and must also adhere to the other relevant provisions in the Act. They may also need to hold a remote gambling operating licence in the event that they wish to sell lottery tickets via electronic or technological methods such as over the telephone. Local authorities wishing to operate their own lotteries can, in the first instance, find relevant information on the Gambling Commissions website. The Gambling Act 2005 also denotes local authorities as being responsible for registering societies to run small society lotteries. The National Lottery is not regulated by the Commission, but continues to be regulated by the National Lottery Commission under the National Lottery Act 1993. When licensing authorities are approached by societies who want to register with them to operate lotteries, they will need to refer to the Acts definition of a small society lottery, which falls into two distinct areas: (1)society statusthe society in question must be non-commercial; (2)lottery sizethe total value of tickets to be put on sale per single lottery must be 20,000 or less, or the aggregate value of tickets to be put on sale for all their lotteries in a calendar year must not exceed 250,000. If the operator plans to exceed either of these values, then they may need to be licensed with the Commission to operate large lotteries instead. The Commission has published an advisory document entitled Lotteries and the Law. This provides information for those seeking to run lotteries, and focuses specifically on large society lotteries and the operating licence regime operated by the Commission. It also provides information on the other types of exempt lottery. Entertainment 17.6 A licensing authority exists to carry out licensing functions under the Licensing Act 2003. It does not carry out environmental health or planning functions which may be linked to the activities that are licensed under the Licensing Act 2003, although it may consist of people who work in those areas. Most licensing authorities will be local councils. The main licensing authorities, as defined in the Act, are: 168'