Common Gaming Houses Act · s 4

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4.
Offences connected with gaming houses and lotteries
Any person who —
(a) being the owner or occupier or having temporary use or otherwise thereof, keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house;
(b) permits a place of which he is owner or occupier or of which he has temporary use or otherwise, to be kept or used by another person as a common gaming house;
(c) has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in the management of, a place kept or used as a common gaming house, or assists in carrying on a public lottery;
(d) receives directly or indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event or contingency connected with, a public lottery, or sells or offers for sale or gives or delivers any lottery ticket;

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(e) draws, throws, declares or exhibits expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol or other result of any public lottery;
(f)
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 public lottery or any announcement or riddle relating to a public lottery;
(g) announces, 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, or in any other manner invites or solicits any person to commit a breach of section 6 or 9; or
(h) conducts in or through any newspaper or any other periodical publication, or in connection with any trade or business or the sale of any article to the public —
(i) any competition in which prizes are offered for forecasts of the result either of a future event or of a past event the result of which is not yet ascertained or not yet generally known; or
(ii) any other competition, success in which does not depend to a substantial degree upon the exercise of skill, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of not less than
$5,000 and not exceeding $50,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3
years or both.

Offences relating to dealing with gaming machines  [S 20/2008]

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s 4Offences connected with gaming houses and lotteries

Any person who —

(a)

being the owner or occupier or having temporary use or otherwise thereof, keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house;

(b)

permits a place of which he is owner or occupier or of which he has temporary use or otherwise, to be kept or used by another person as a common gaming house;

(c)

has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in the management of, a place kept or used as a common gaming house, or assists in carrying on a public lottery;

(d)

receives directly or indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event or contingency connected with, a public lottery, or sells or offers for sale or gives or delivers any lottery ticket;

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(e)

draws, throws, declares or exhibits expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol or other result of any public lottery;

(f)

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 public lottery or any announcement or riddle relating to a public lottery;

(g)

announces, 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, or in any other manner invites or solicits any person to commit a breach of section 6 or 9; or

(h)

conducts in or through any newspaper or any other periodical publication, or in connection with any trade or business or the sale of any article to the public —

(i)

any competition in which prizes are offered for forecasts of the result either of a future event or of a past event the result of which is not yet ascertained or not yet generally known; or

(ii)

any other competition, success in which does not depend to a substantial degree upon the exercise of skill, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of not less than

$5,000 and not exceeding $50,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3

years or both.

Offences relating to dealing with gaming machines [S 20/2008]