LawgistThe Public Gambling Act
12Act not to apply to certain games
Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act contained shall be held to apply to any game of mere skill wherever played.
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PRELIMINARY
- 1 Interpretation-clause
- 2 Power to extend Act
- 3 Penalty for owning or keeping, or having charge of, a gaming-house
- 4 Penalty for being found in gaming-house
- 5 Power to enter and authorise police to enter and search
- 6 Finding cards, etc., in suspected houses, to be evidence that such houses are common gaming- houses
- 7 Penalty on persons arrested for giving false names and addresses
- 8 On conviction for keeping a gaming-house, instruments of gaming to be destroyed
- 9 Proof of playing for stakes unnecessary
- 10 Magistrate may require any person apprehended to be sworn and give evidence
- 11 Witnesses indemnified
- 12 Act not to apply to certain games
- 13 Gaming and setting birds and animals to fight in public streets
- 14 Offences, by whom triable
- 15 Penalty for subsequent offence
- 16 Portion of fine may be paid to informer
- 17 Recovery and application of fines
- 18 [Repealed.]
