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Power to enter or authorize entry of common gaming house and to seize implements and persons.
Schedule.
Gambling.
(2) The conditions referred to in the preceding sub-section are that-
(a) the games shall be promoted only on such premises of the society as may be described in the written permission of the Commissioner of Police;
(b) tickets or chances in the game shall not be sold or issued, except on such premises of the society as may be described in the written permission of the Commissioner of Police;
(c) the whole proceeds of the game after deducting only expenses incurred for printing and stationery shall be devoted either to the provision of prizes for the players or to purposes which are purposes of the society or as to part to the provision of prizes as aforesaid and as to the remainder to such purposes as aforesaid;
(d) there shall not be exhibited, published or distributed any written notice or advertisement of the game other than notice thereof exhibited within the premises of the society for whose members it is promoted.
(3) If any of the conditions prescribed in subsection (2) hereof is broken, each of the promoters of the game, and where the person by whom the condition is broken is not one of the promoters, that person also, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months: Provided that it shall be a defence for a person charged only by reason of his being a promoter of the game to prove that the offence was committed without [9B] his knowledge.
12. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace or police officer duly authorized by warrant of any justice of the peace (which shall be in the form in the Schedule) with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and, if necessary, to break into any place which such justice of the peace, from sworn information or of his own knowledge, has reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a common gaming house, and to arrest such persons as may be found therein, and to seize all cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, or other implements of gaming or gambling or which may be used as such, and
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