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Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 81

Title: Entry, Search, Etc., by Police Officers in Gaming-house

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....or place, which he has reason to suspect is used as a common gaming-house or for the purpose of gaming on any of the objects referred to in sub-section (1) of section 78; (b) to search all parts of the building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or place which he shall have so entered, when he shall have reason to suspect that any instruments of gaming are concealed therein, and also the persons whom he shall find therein, whether such persons are then actually gaming or not; (c) to take into custody and bring before a Magistrate all such persons; (d) to seize all instruments of gaming and all moneys and securities for money and articles of value which are reasonably suspected to have been used or intended to be used for the purpose of gaming, and which are found therein: Provided that no officer shall be authorised by special warrant unless the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Police or Magistrate or Superintendent, Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police concerned is satisfied, upon 1 [a written complaint or report made to him] and upon making such inquiry as he may think necessary, that there are good grounds to suspect.....

Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 82

Title: Presumptive Proof of Keeping or Gaming in Common Gaming-house

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

(1) When any instrument of gaming has been seized in any building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or place entered or searched under section 81 or on a person found therein, and in the case of any other thing so seized, if the court is satisfied that the police officer who entered such building, room, tent, or place, enclosure, vehicle, vessel, had reasonable grounds for suspecting that the thing so seized was an instrument of gaming, the seizure of such instrument or thing shall be evidence, until the contrary is proved, that such building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or place is used as a common gaming-house and the persons found therein were then present for the purpose of gaming, although no gaming was actually seen by the police officer or by any person acting under the authority of either of them. (2) Any person found in any common gaming-house during any gaming therein shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, to have been there for the purpose of gaming.

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 4

Title: 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.

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 3

Title: 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; shall be liable to fine not exceeding two-hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code, for any term not exceeding three months.

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 6

Title: 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.

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 8

Title: 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.

Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 80

Title: Gaming in Common Gaming-house, Etc

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

Whoever is found in any common gaming-house gaming or present for the purpose of gaming shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one year and with fine: Provided that,-- (a) for a first offence such imprisonment shall not be less than one month and fine shall not be less than two hundred rupees; (b) for a second offence such imprisonment shall not be less three months and fine shall not be less than two hundred rupees; and (c) for a third or subsequent offence such imprisonment shall not be less than six months and fine shall not be less than five hundred rupees.

Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 79

Title: Keeping Common Gaming House, Etc

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

Any person who,-- (a) opens, keeps or uses any building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel, or place for the purpose of a common gaming-house; (b) being the owner or occupier of any such building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel, or place knowingly or wilfully permits the same to be opened, occupied, kept or used by any other person for the purpose aforesaid; (c) has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in conducting the business of, any such building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel, or place opened, occupied, kept or used for the purpose aforesaid; or (d) advances or furnishes money for the purpose of gaming with persons frequenting any such building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel, or place, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one year and with fine: Provided that,-- (a) for a first offence, such imprisonment shall not be less than three months and fine shall not be less than five hundred rupees; (b) for a second offence, such imprisonment shall not be less than six months and fine shall not be less than five hundred rupees; and (c) for a third or subsequent offence, such imprisonme

The Pondicherry Gaming Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Pondicherry

Year: 1965

THE PONDICHERRY GAMING ACT, 1965 THE PONDICHERRY GAMING ACT, 1965 (No. 15 of 1965) ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title, extend and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Penalty for opening etc., of any house etc., for certain forms of gaming. 4. Power to grant warrant to enter a common gaming-house. 5. Cards, dice, etc., found in search under last section to be evidence that place is a common gamming-house. 6. Proof of playing for stakes unnecessary. 7. Penalty for opening etc., a common gaming-house. 8. Penalty for being found gaming in a common gaming-house. 9. Instruments of gaming may be ordered to be destroyed on conviction. 10. Saving of games of skill. 11. Payment of portion of fine to informants and Police officers. 12. Penalty for gaming in public street etc. 13. Assembling in streets for gaming. 14. Printing, publishing or distributing any news or information. 15. Police may arrest without warrant in view of offence. 16. Repeal. THE PONDICHERRY GAMING ACT, 1965 (Act No. 15 of 1965) 27th October, 1965 An Act to provide for the punishment of gaming and the keeping of common gaming-house in the Union territory.....

The Tamil Nadu Gaming Act, 1930 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1930

.....Madras Gaming Amendment) Act, 1946 (Madras Act IV of 1946), re-enacted permanently by Section 2 of and the First Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Re-enacting (No.II) Act, 1948 (Tamil Nadu Act VIII of 1948), Section 3 of the Madras City Police and Gaming (Amendment) Act, 1955 (Tamil Nadu Act XVI of 1955) was extended to the added territories by section 10 of the Tamil Nadu (Added Territories) Extension of Laws (No.2) Act, 1961 (Tamil Nadu Act 39 of 1961) 4. Penalty for opening etc., for certain forms of gaming. " (1) Whoever " (a) being the owner or occupier or having the use of any house, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or place, opens, keeps or uses the same for the purpose of gaming " (i) on a horse-race, or (ii)on the market price of cotton, bullion or other commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or (iii) on the amount or variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or (iv) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or (v) on the number of registration or on the digits of the number of.....