Common Gaming Houses Act · 2019 Revised Edition
5. Advancing money for gaming house or lottery
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who —
advances or furnishes money for the purpose of —
establishing or conducting the business of a common gaming house; or
common gaming house
“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;
a public lottery; or
profits from the establishment or conduct of such business, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $20,000 and imprisonment for 12 months.
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;
lottery
Defined · s 2“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 whether the game, method or device is held, drawn, exercised or managed within or outside Brunei Darussalam;
public lottery
Defined · s 2“public lottery” means a lottery to which the public or any class of the public has or may have access and every lottery is deemed, until the contrary be proved, to be a public lottery;