598
No. 2 of 1891.
Penalty on owner of place permitting same to be used as common gaming house.
[17 & 18 Vict c. 38 s. 4.]
* Keeping common gaming house.
+ Playing in common gaming house, or dealing in lottery tickets.
$ Advancing money for purpose of gaming.
GAMBLING
5.-(1) Every person, being the owner of any place, who knowingly permits the same to be opened, kept, or used by another person as a common gaming house shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars: Provided that no prosecution under this section shall be commenced without the fiat of the Attorney General.
(2) The expression "owner" as used in this section means and includes the holder of any tenement direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence, or otherwise, or the immediate landlord of any tenement, or the agent of any such holder or landlord who is absent or under disability.
6. The keeper of a common gaming house shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars, and imprisonment: Provided that the aggregate term of imprisonment imposed, whether for default in payment of the penalty or otherwise, shall in no case exceed the term of 9 months.
7.-(1) Every person who:-
(a) plays in a common gaming house, or (b) buys any lottery ticket;
shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.
(2) Every person who sells or has in his possession with a view to sale any lottery ticket shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars.
(3) Any person found in a common gaming house or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be or to have been playing therein.
(4) Any person found in possession of any lottery ticket shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have the said ticket in his possession with a view to sale.
8. Every person who furnishes or advances money for the purpose of gaming in any common gaming house or for the purpose of establishing or conducting a common gaming house or a lottery shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars.
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
+ As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
§ As amended by No. 4 of 1912.
$ As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
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