Common Gaming Houses Act · s 9

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s 9Buying ticket

(1)

Any person who either personally or by an agent —

(a)

pays or deposits any money or money’s worth as a stake or for or in respect of any event or contingency connected with a public lottery; or

(b)

buys a lottery ticket, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000.

(2)

A person in whose possession a lottery ticket is found shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have bought the lottery ticket.

(3)

Every lottery ticket brought or introduced into or being within

Brunei Darussalam shall be forfeited to the Government and it shall be the duty of every police officer or other public servant to seize every such ticket wherever found.