Section 3: Penalty for owning or keeping, or having charge of, a gaming-house.

The Public Gambling Act, 1867Central Act · Act 3 of 1867

Whoever, being the owner or occupier, or having the use, of any house, walled enclosure, room or place situated within the limits to which this Act applies, opens, keeps or uses the same as a common gaming-house; and

whoever, being the owner or occupier of any such house, walled enclosure, room or place as aforesaid, knowingly or wilfully permits the same to be opened, occupied, used or kept by any other person as a common gaming-house; and

whoever has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in conducting, the business of any house, walled enclosure, room or place as aforesaid, opened, occupied, used or kept for the purpose aforesaid; and

whoever advances or furnishes money for the purpose of gaining with persons frequenting such house, walled enclosure, room or place;

shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two-hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), for any term not exceeding three months.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Public Gambling Act, 1867
Section	3
Marginal note	Penalty for owning or keeping, or having charge of, a gaming-house.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	3

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

other. . See s. 53 of the Code.
other. . As to enhanced punishment for a second conviction of an offence under s. 3 or s. 4, see s. 15 of this Act.

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