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• Gambling 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Licences for Lotteries
  • 3 Repealed by 1977-27....
  • 4 Repealed by 1977-27....
  • 5 Repealed by 1977-27....
  • 6 Repealed by 1977-27....
• PART III Gambling Offences
  • 7 Common gaming house a public nuisance
  • 8 Offences in relation to common gaming houses and public lotteries
  • 9 Playing in or found in common gaming house
  • 10 Taking part in public lottery
  • 11 Money paid for lottery ticket recoverable
  • 12 Contract for sale of lottery ticket void
  • 13 Gambling or betting in public place or on licensed premises
  • 14 Using place for gambling or betting without permission of owner
• PART IV Search and Arrest
  • 15 Magistrate may issue warrant to search suspected place
  • 16 Warrant to arrest and search person
• PART V Presumptions and Evidence
  • 17 Presumption from instruments, etc., that place is a common gaming house
  • 18 Presumption from construction of place
  • 19 Notice of presumptive common gaming house to be served on owner
  • 20 No information under Act to be evidence, except in certain cases
  • 21 Evidence by persons charged
• PART VI Legal Proceedings
  • 22 Mode of trial
  • 23 Order for demolition of place specially constructed for gambling
  • 24 Second conviction
  • 25 Informers to be paid half fine imposed
• PART VII Exemptions
  • 26 Act not to apply to pool betting and certain lotteries