346
No. 2 of 1891.
GAMBLING.
Advancing money for purpose of gaming.
Declaring winner of lottery, etc.
Power to enter or authorize entry of common gaming house and to seize implements and persons.
Schedule.
8. Every person who furnishes or advances money for the purpose of gaming, gambling or betting in any common gaming house or for the purpose of establishing or conducting a common gaming house or a lottery shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
9. Every person who-
(1) declares or exhibits, expressly or otherwise, the winner or winning number, ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol, or other result of any lottery; or
(2) writes, prints, or publishes, or causes 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 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 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 also all betting slips, moneys or securities for money which may be either in actual use for the purpose of gaming, gambling or betting or be found upon the persons of the keepers of such place, and the said implements, betting slips and moneys or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be forfeited.
* As amended by No. 5 of 1936 [31.1.36].
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346
No. 2 of 1891.
GAMBLING.
Advancing money for
purpose of gaming.
Declaring winner of lottery, etc.
Power to enter or authorize entry of common
gaming house and to seize implements and persons.
Schedule.
8. Every person who furnishes or advances money for the purpose of gaming, gambling or betting in any common gaming house er for the purpose of establishing or conducting. a common gaming house or a lottery shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars.
9. Every person who-
(1) declares or exhibits, expressly or otherwise, the winner or winning number, ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol, or other result of any lottery; or
(2) writes, prints, or publishes, or causes 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 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 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 also all betting slips, moneys or securities for money which may be either in actual use for the purpose of gaming, gambling or betting or be found upon the persons of the keepers of such place, and the said implements, betting slips and moneys or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be forfeited.
* As amended by No. 5 of 1936 [31.1.36].
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