Common Gaming Houses Act · 2019 Revised Edition
9. Buying ticket
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who either personally or by an agent —
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
buys a lottery ticket, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000.
A person in whose possession a lottery ticket is found shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have bought the lottery ticket.
lottery ticket
“lottery ticket” includes any paper, figure, writing, symbol or other article whatsoever which either expressly or tacitly entitles or purports to entitle the holder or any other person to receive any money or money’s worth on the happening of any event or contingency connected with any public lottery;
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.
Terms defined in s 2
lottery ticket
Defined · s 2“lottery ticket” includes any paper, figure, writing, symbol or other article whatsoever which either expressly or tacitly entitles or purports to entitle the holder or any other person to receive any money or money’s worth on the happening of any event or contingency connected with any public lottery;
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;