CAP. 148]
[s. 2 cont.]
(Cap. 108.)
Club used as gaming house.
Gambling.
"implements or appliances of gambling" include all articles which are used in or for the purpose of gambling or a lottery; "keeper" includes the occupier or person having the use temporarily of any common gaming house or any person having or appearing to have the care or management of such place, and also any person who acts in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same; "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, 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;
"place" includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle, or vessel, or any erection movable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water;
"street" shall be deemed to include and extend to any road, lane, alley, passage, wharf, pier, park, recreation ground, or other open space whatsoever.
(2) 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.
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 (a) of the definition of "common gaming house" in section 2, or for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (b) of that definition, or for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (c) of that definition.
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CAP. 148]
[s. 2 cont.]
(Cap. 108.)
Club used as gaming house.
Gambling.
"implements or appliances of gambling" include all articles which are used in or for the purpose of gambling or a lottery; "keeper" includes the occupier or person having the use temporarily of any common gaming house or any person having or appearing to have the care or manage- ment of such place, and also any person who acts in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same; "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, 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;
"place" includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle, or vessel, or any erection movable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water;
"street" shall be deemed to include and extend to any road, lane, alley, passage, wharf, pier, park, recreation ground, or other open space whatsoever.
(2) 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.
3. A place which is used as an ordinary social club to which the public at large have not access shall neverthe- less be deemed a common gaming house if kept or used either for the playing of any of the games mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of "common gaming house" in section 2, or for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (b) of that definition, or for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (c) of that definition.
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