(1) Every person promoting a lottery or prize competition of any kind shall keep and maintain accounts relating to such lottery or competition and shall submit to the Collector statements in such form and of such period as may be prescribed :
Provided that in the case of a prize competition the accounts maintained and the statements thereof submitted to the licensing authority under the Prize Competitions Act, 1955, shall be deemed to be the accounts or statements to be maintained or submitted, as the case may be, under this section.
(2) In the case of a lottery contained in a newspaper or publication printed and published outside the State, every person promoting such lottery shall make a declaration in such form and of such period as may be prescribed.
15. If-
(a) any promoter of a lottery or prize competition liable under sub section (1) of section 14 to keep and maintain accounts or to submit statements in the manner and of the period prescribed fails to keep accounts or so to submit the statements, or keeps such accounts or submits such statements as he knows to be or has reason to believe to be false, or
(b) any promoter of a lottery liable under sub-section (2) of section 14 to make a declaration In the manner and of the period prescribed fails to make the declaration or makes such declaration as he knows or has reason to believe to be false, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Rs. 500.
16. Where any newspaper or publication, wherever printed or published, contains an unlawful lottery the Collector may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare every copy of the issue of the news paper or every copy of such publication containing such lottery to be forfeited to the State Government.
17. The Collector may, for the purposes of this Act at all reasonable times—
(i) require any promoter of a lottery or prize competition to produce before him accounts or other documents or to furnish any other information; or
(ii) inspect the accounts of any such promoter.
18. it shall be lawful for a police officer-
(i) in Greater Bombay, not below the rank of Sergeant or sub- Inspector and either empowered by general order in writing or authorised in each case by special warrant issued by the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, and
(ii) elsewhere, not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector of Police authorised by a special warrant issued In each case by a Magistrate of the First Class or a District Superintendent of Police or by an Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf-
(a) to enter, with the assistance of such persons as may be found necessary by night or by day, and by force, if necessary, any house, room or place which he has reason to suspect is used for purposes connected with the promotion or conduct of any lottery;
(b) to search all parts of the house, room or place which he shall have so entered, the persons whom he shall find therein and also such persons as may be specified by name in the warrant;
(c) to take into custody and bring before a Magistrate all such persons;
(d) to seize all things which are reasonably suspected to have been used or intended to be used In connection with a lottery and which are found therein:
Provided that no officer shall be authorised by special warrant unless the Commissioner of Police, the Magistrate, the District or Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police concerned is satisfied, upon any complaint made before him on oath and upon making such inquiry as he may think necessary, that there are Promoters of lotteries or prize competitions to keep and maintain accounts, submit statements and make declarations. XLII of
1955.
Panalty for failure to keep accounts, submit statements or make declaration or keeping false accounts, submitting false statements and making false declaration.
Forfeiture of newspapers and publications containing unlawful lotteries.
Power of Collector to require production of accounts or to inspect accounts.
Power of entry and starch.
[1958 : Bom. LXXXII Gujarat Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act 1958 reasonable grounds, to suspect the said house, room or place to be used for purposes connected with the promotion or conduct of an unlawful lottery,
19. All searches made under section 18 shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.
20. A police officer may apprehend without warrant any person found, or reasonably suspected of committing an offence under clauses (a), (c) or (d) of sub-section (1) of section 4, in any public street, or thoroughfare or in any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access.