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(1) declares or exhibits, expressly or otherwise, the winner or lottery, etc. winning number, ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol, or other result of any lottery; or
(2) writes, prints, or publishes, or cause to be written, printed, or published, any lottery ticket or list of prizes, or any announcement of the result of a lottery, or any announcement relating to a lottery; or
(3) announces or publishes, or cause to be announced or published, either orally or by means of any print, writing, design, sign, or otherwise, that any place is opened, kept, or used as a common gaming house,
shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding 3 months.
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10. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or officer of
Power to
police duly authorised by warrant of any Justice of the Peace (which
enter or
shall be in the form in the schedule) with such assistants as may be
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necessary, to enter and, if necessary, to break into any place which
gaming
such Justice of the Peace, from sworn information or of his own
house and
knowledge, has reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a
implements
common gaming house, and to arrest such persons as may be found
and persons.
therein, and to seize all cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, or other implements of gambling or which may be used as such, and also all moneys or securities for money which may be either in actual use for the purpose of gambling or be found upon the persons of the keepers of such place, and the said implements of gambling and moneys or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be forfeited.
c. 109 s. 8.]
11. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets,
Evidence of
books or other implements of gambling are found in any place
gaming.
suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or about the person of any of those who may be found therein, it shall be evidence (until the contrary is made to appear) that such place is used as a common gaming house, and that the persons found in the place where such tables or implements of gambling have been found were playing
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.