Title : Power to Extend Act
State : Central
Year : 1867
1[Sections 13 and 17] of this Act shall extend to the whole of the said2[States] and it shall be competent to the3[State Government] whenever4[it] may think fit, to extend, by a notification to be published in three successive numbers of the Official Gazette, all or any of the remaining sections of this Act to any city, town, suburb, railway-station, house and place being not more than three miles distant from any part of such station-house within the2[States], and in such notification to define, for the purposes of this Act, the limits of such city, town, suburb or station-house, and from time to time to alter the limits so defined. From the date of any such extension, so much of any rule having the force of law which shall be in operation in the territories to which such extension..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Owning or Keeping, or Having Charge of a Gaming-house
State : Central
Year : 1867
Whoever, being the owner or occupier, or having the use, of any house, walled enclosure, room or place situate 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 gaming with persons frequenting such house, walled enclosure, room or place; ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Being Found in Gaming-house
State : Central
Year : 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, 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. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers to Enter and Authorise Police to Enter and Search
State : Central
Year : 1867
If theMagistrate of a district or other officer invested with the full powers of aMagistrate or the District Superintendent of Police, upon credible information,and after such enquiry as he may think necessary, has reason to believe that anyhouse, walled enclosure, room or place, is used as a common gaming house, he may eitherhimself enter, or by his warrant authorise any officer of police, not below suchrank as the 1 [State Government] shall appoint in this behalf to enterwith such assistance as may be found necessary, by night or by day, and byforce, if necessary, any such house, walled enclosure, room or place, and may eitherhimself take into custody, or authorise such officer to take into custody, allpersons whom he or such officer finds therein, whether or not then..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Finding Cards, Etc., in Suspected Houses, to Be Evidence That Such Houses Are Common Gaming-houses
State : Central
Year : 1867
When any cards, dice, gaming-tables, cloths, boards or other instruments of gaming are found in any house, walled enclosure, room or place entered or searched under the provisions of the last preceding section, or about the person of any of those who are found therein, it shall be evidence, until the contrary is made to appear, that such house, walled enclosure, room or place, is used as a common gaming-house, and that the persons found therein were there present for the purpose of gaming, although no play was actually seen by the Magistrate or police officer, or any of his assistants. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty on Persons Arrested for Giving False Names and Addresses
State : Central
Year : 1867
If any person found in any common gaming-house entered by any Magistrate or officer of police under the provisions of this Act, upon being arrested, by any such officer or upon being brought before any Magistrate, on being required by such officer or Magistrate to give his name and address, shall refuse or neglect to give the same, or shall give any false name or address, he may upon conviction before the same or any other Magistrate be adjudged to pay any penalty not exceeding five hundred rupees, together with such costs as to such Magistrate shall appear reasonable, and on the non-payment of such penalty and costs, or in the first instance, if to such Magistrate it shall seem fit, may be imprisoned for any period not exceeding one month. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : On Conviction for Keeping a Gaming-house, Instruments of Gaming to Be Destroyed
State : Central
Year : 1867
On conviction of any person for keeping or using any such common gaming-house, or being present therein for the purpose of gaming, the convicting Magistrate may order all the instruments of gaming found therein to be destroyed, and may also order all or any of the securities for money and other articles seized, not being instruments of gaming to be sold and converted into money, and the proceeds thereof with all moneys seized therein to be forfeited or, in his discretion, may order any part thereof to be returned to the persons appearing to have been severally thereunto entitled. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Playing for Stakes Unnecessary
State : Central
Year : 1867
It shall not be necessary, in order to convict any person of keeping a common gaming-house, or of being concerned in the management of any common gaming-house, to prove that any person found playing at any game was playing for any money, wager or stake. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Magistrate May Require Any Person, Apprehended to Be Sworn and Give Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1867
It shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom any persons shall be brought, who have been found in any house, walled enclosure, room or place entered under the provisions of this Act, to require any such persons to be examined on oath or solemn affirmation, and give evidence touching any unlawful gaming in such house, walled enclosure, room or place, or touching any act done for the purpose of preventing, obstructing or delaying the entry into such house, walled enclosure, room or place or any part thereof, of any Magistrate or officer authorised as aforesaid. No person so required to be examined as a witness shall be excused from being so examined when brought before such Magistrate as aforesaid, or from being so examined at any subsequent time by or before the same or any other..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Witnesses Indemnified
State : Central
Year : 1867
Any person who shall have been concerned in gaming contrary to this Act, and who shall be examined as a witness before a Magistrate on the trial of any person for a breach of any of the provisions of this Act relating to gaming, and who, upon such examination, shall in the opinion of the Magistrate make true and faithful discovery, to the best of his knowledge, of all things as to which he shall be so examined, shall thereupon receive from the said Magistrate a certificate in writing to that effect, and shall be freed from all prosecutions under this Act for anything done before that time in respect of such gaming. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section