572
No. 2 of 1891.
GAMBLING.
Power to enter or authorise entry of common gaming house and to seize implements
(3) announces or publishes, or causes 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 upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.
10. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace or officer of police duly authorised 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 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.
Schedule.
Evidence of gaming. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 8.
11. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books or other implements of gambling are found in any place suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, 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 implements of gambling have been found were playing therein, although no play was actually going on in the presence of the constable or officer entering the same under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or in the presence of any assistants by whom he may be accompanied as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the magistrate before whom any person may be taken by virtue of the warrant to direct all such implements of gambling to be forfeited or destroyed.
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
572
No. 2 of 1891.
GAMBLING.
Power to enter or authorise entry of common
gaming house and to seize
implements
(3) announces or publishes, or causes 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 upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.
10. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace or officer of police duly authorised 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 and persons 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 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 gam- bling 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.
Schedule.
Evidence of gaming. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 8.
11. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books or other implements of gambling are found in any place suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, of 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 implements of gambling have been found were playing therein, although no play was actually going on in the presence of the con- stable or officer entering the same under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or in the presence of any assistants by whom he may be accompanied as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the magistrate before whom any person may be taken by virtue of the warrant to direct all such imple- ments of gambling to be forfeited or destroyed.
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
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