Act Number: 3

Act Name: The Public Gambling Act, 1867

Year: 1867

Enactment Date: 1867-01-25

Long Title: An Act to provide for the punishment of public gambling and the keeping of common gaming house in the United Provinces East Punjab, Delhi1[and the Central Provinces].

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 1: Interpretation-clause.
    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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Notes:
1. Definitions of "Lieutenant-Governor" and "Chief Commissioner" rep. by the A. O. 1937.
2. The clauses relating to "Number" and "Gender" were rep, by Act 17 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
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