GAMING AND LOTTERIES BILL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 427, 29 September 1898, Page 9

GAMING AND LOTTERIES BILL.

The Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Bill, introduced in the Council on Friday, 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, or if two or more persons are found assembled together in any road, street, footway, court, alley, or public thoroughfare, for the purposes of betting or wagering, each of them commits an offence, and is liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO. 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’ thereip 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 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 gaming. 6. Sections 29, 30, and 31 of the principal Act, and section 6 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendments Act, 1885, are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the provisions of sections 5 to 8 of the Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1895, shall, mutatis mutandis, extend and apply to all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.