GAMING AND LOTTERIES BILL.
DRASTIC PROPOSALS.
(By Telegraph.)
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
WELLINGTON, September 23,
The Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Bill introduced in the Legislative Council to-day and read a second time is as follows:—(1) This Act shall form part of and be read together with the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881. (2). If any person is found loitering, and if two or more persons are found assembled together in any road, street, footway, court, alley or public thoroughfare for the purpose of betting or wagering, each of them commits an offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding £10. (3) If such offence is committed in the view of a police officer, he may, without warrant, arrest the persons committing the same, and every person arrested shall be detained in custody until he can be brought before the court. (4) For the more effectual suppression of common gaming houses, the power of seizure, which by section 3 of the principal Act is conferred upon a police officer in the cases therein mentioned, is hereby extended to include the power to seize books,letters, circulars, and other documents or papers. (5) In all proceedings under sections 13 or 28 of the principal Act against the owner or occupier of any house, office, room, or other place for knowingly and wilfully permitting the same to.be opened, kept, or used by any other person as a common gaming house, or for the purpose of unlawful gaming' being carried on therein, such knowledge and wilful intent shall be deemed to be proved if it is established to the satisfaction of the Court that prior to the date of the alleged offence; the defendant had received notice or warning from the police that such place was suspected to be a common gaming house, or a place used for unlawful gambling. (6) Sections 29, 30, and 31, of the principal Act, and section 6 of the Gaining and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendment Act, 1885, are hereby repealed,,and in lieu thereof the provisions of sections 6to 8 of the Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1895, shall mutatis mutandis extend and apply to all proceedings in respect of any breach of or offence against the principal Act, or any amendment thereof, or this Act.
GAMING AND LOTTERIES BILL.
Press, Volume LV, Issue 10150, 24 September 1898, Page 8
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