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Section 4: Penalty for being found in gaming-house.

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

Whoever is found in any such house, walled enclosure, room or place, playing or gaming with cards, dice, counters, money or other instruments of gaming, or is found there present for the purpose of gaming, whether playing for any money, wager, stake or otherwise, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), for any term not exceeding one month,

and 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.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Public Gambling Act, 1867
Section4
Marginal notePenalty for being found in gaming-house.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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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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