GAMBLING.
12. Every person who-
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(1) wilfully prevents any justice of the peace or officer authorised by warrant under this Ordinance to enter any place from entering the same or any part thereof; or
Penalty on obstructing entry of justice, etc.
c. 38, s. 1.
(2) obstructs or delays any such justice of the peace or officer in so entering; or
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(3) by any bolt, bar, chain, or other contrivance, secures any external or internal door of or means of access to any place so authorised to be entered; or
(4) uses any means or contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of preventing, obstructing, or delaying the entry of any constable or officer authorised as aforesaid into any such place or any part thereof,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
constable, etc., of house being used as common gaming house.
C.
13. Where any officer of police authorised under section 10 to enter any place is wilfully prevented from or obstructed or delayed in entering the same or any part thereof, or where any external or internal door of or means of access to any such place so authorised to be entered is found to be fitted or provided with any bolt, bar, chain, or any means or contrivance for the purpose of preventing, delaying, or obstructing the entry into the same or any part thereof of any constable or officer authorised as aforesaid, or for giving an alarm in case of such entry, or if any such place is found to be fitted or provided with any means or contrivance for gaming, or with any means or contrivance for concealing, removing, or destroying any implements of gambling, it shall be evidence (until the contrary is made to appear) that such place is a common gaming house within the meaning of this Ordinance, and that the persons found therein were unlawfully gaming therein.
person
14. (1) It shall be lawful for any magistrate before whom any persons are brought who have been found in any place entered in pursuance of section 10 to require any of such persons to be examined upon oath and give evidence touching any gaming in any such place or touching any act done for the purpose of preventing, obstructing, or delaying the entry into such place or any part thereof of any constable or
c. 38, s. 5.
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to be sworn
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