Common Gaming Houses Act · 2019 Revised Edition
18. Magistrate to make order for demolition of structural contrivances for facilitating gaming
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If it appears to a Magistrate upon the trial of any offence under this
Act that —
the place in or in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed is a common gaming house; and
place
“place” means any house, office, room or building and any place or spot whether open or enclosed and includes a ship, boat or other vessel whether afloat or not and any vehicle;
the place is fitted or provided with any of the means or contrivances mentioned in section 17(1), he shall order the demolition and destruction of the staircases, doors and partitions, ladders, planks, platforms, posts, palings, bars, bolts and other things which appear to him to have been specially erected or constructed for the purpose of facilitating the carrying on of gaming on the premises.
gaming
“gaming” means playing any game of chance or of mixed chance and skill for money or money’s worth and includes — (a) playing any game specified in the Schedule; and (b) playing or operating any gaming machine;
Terms defined in s 2
common gaming house
Defined · s 2“common gaming house” includes — (a) any place kept or used for gaming, to which the public or any class of the public has or may have access; (b) any place kept for habitual gaming, whether the public or any class of the public has or may have access to it or not; (c) any place kept or used for the purpose of a public lottery; (d) any place (including a place which is owned, occupied, possessed, kept, used or maintained by any society or any other organisation, body or group of persons, whether or not that society, organisation, body or group is established by or under any written law) — (i) where four or more persons are gaming; (ii) where any game specified in the Schedule is being played; or (iii) where gaming is carried out and for which payment is made by any person to any society, organisation, body or group of persons or any other person as consideration for permitting gaming in such place;
gaming
Defined · s 2“gaming” means playing any game of chance or of mixed chance and skill for money or money’s worth and includes — (a) playing any game specified in the Schedule; and (b) playing or operating any gaming machine;
place
Defined · s 2“place” means any house, office, room or building and any place or spot whether open or enclosed and includes a ship, boat or other vessel whether afloat or not and any vehicle;