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Home›State Acts›Public Gambling Act, 1977›section 1A

section 1A

Interpretation clause

Public Gambling Act, 1977
Criminal197716 sections
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A. Interpretation clause. In this Act- "Instrument of gaming" includes any article or appurtenance of or for the purpose of any thing of

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Contents

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  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 1AInterpretation clause
  3. 2Power to extend Act
  4. 3Penalty for owning or keeping, or having charge of, a gaming-house
  5. 4Penalty for being found in a gaming-house
  6. 5And any person found in any common gaming-house during any gaming or playing therein shall be presumed, until the contrary be proved, to have been there for the purpose of gaming.
  7. 6Finding cards, &c., in suspected houses, to be evidence that such houses are common games
  8. 7Finding cards, &c., in suspected houses, to be evidence that such houses are common gaming-houses.
  9. 8Penalty on persons arrested for giving false names and addresses.
  10. 10On conviction for keeping a gaming-house, instruments of gaming to be destroyed.
  11. 11Witnesses indemnified
  12. 12Act not to apply to certain games
  13. 13Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to apply to any game of mere skill wherever played.
  14. 14Offences, by whom triable
  15. 16Offences, by whom triable.
  16. 17Recovery and application of fines
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