Section 7:
Penalty on persons arrested for giving false names and addresses.
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.