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No. 2 of 1891.
GAMBLING.
[Ordinance No. 40
of 1931.]
Club used ́as gaming house.
Proof of gaming for money not necessary. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 5.
Penalty on owner of place permitting assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same.
(f) Any place in which lottery tickets are sold, procured, or distributed or any place in which money or money's worth in connexion with a lottery is paid or distributed shall be deemed to be kept for the purpose of a lottery.
(g) "Lottery" includes any game, method, or device whereby money or money's worth is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot or the result of any race or contest other than totalisators, pari-mutuels and cash-sweeps authorized under the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931, and other than the sweepstakes subscriptions contributed towards the prizes for the owners of winners and placed horses or ponies in horse and pony races conducted by race, jockey or hunt clubs, whether the same is held, drawn, exercised, or managed within or without the Colony.
(h) "Place" includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle, or vessel, or any erection movable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water.
(i) Street shall be deemed to include and extend to any road, lane, alley, passage, wharf, pier, park, recreation ground, or other open space whatsoever.
3. A place which is used as an ordinary social club to which the public at large have not access shall nevertheless be deemed a common gaming house if kept or used either for the playing of any of the games mentioned in paragraph (1) of the definition of common gaming house in section 2, or for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (2) of that definition, or for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (3) of that definition.
4. In case of any complaint made under this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary to prove that any person found playing at any game was playing for any money, wager, or stake.
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 upon summary
* As amended by No. 5 of 1936 [31.1.36].