Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970 Act No.8 of 1970
Bare Act · 1970
- Act number
- 8 of 1970
- Enacted
- 25 October 1970
- Contents
- 22 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Penalty for owning, keeping or having charge of a common gaming house
- Section 4 – Penalty for assisting gambling
- Section 5 – Penalty for being found in common gaming house
- Section 6 – Power of Police Officer to enter and search (preview)
- Section 7 – Finding instruments of gaming in suspected houses to be evidence that they are common gaming houses (preview)
- Section 8 – Penalty for giving for stakes unnecessary (preview)
- Section 9 – Destruction of instruments of gaming and payment of reward to informers (preview)
- Section 10 – Proof for playing for stakes unnecessary (preview)
- Section 11 – Gaming in public places (preview)
- Section 12 – Power of Police Officer to enter premises and arrest persons, printing, etc., matters relating to gambling (preview)
- Section 13 – Exemptions (preview)
- Section 14 – Indemnity of witnesses (preview)
- Section 15 – Penalty for subsequent offence (preview)
- Section 15A – Offences under sections 3 and 4 non bailable (preview)
- Section 16 – Searches how to be made (preview)
- Section 17 – Protection of action taken (preview)
- Section 18 – Recovery of fines (preview)
- Section 19 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 20 – Repeal of the Public Gambling Act, 1967 (Central Act 3 of 1867) (preview)
- Section 21 – Amendment of Assam Amusements and Betting Tax Act, 1980 (Assam Act 6 of 1939) (preview)