Common Gaming Houses Act · 2019 Revised Edition
6. Playing in gaming house
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who plays in a common gaming house is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 6
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;
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A person found in a common gaming house or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Act shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be or to have been playing therein.
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;