Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 1 - Bare Act

In this Act-

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"Common gaming-house."

"Common gaming-house" means any house, walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure, room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming or of the house, enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever:

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1. Substituted for "in the territories, respectively, subject to the Governments of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William and of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, and to the administrations of the Chief Commissioner of Oudh, and of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces", by A.C.A.O., 1948 (23-3-1948).

2. Definitions of "Lieutenant-Governor" and "Chief Commissioner" were omitted by A. O., 1937 (1-4-1937).