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BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - SECT 1



1.(1) If anyone, for the purpose of earning commission, reward, or other
profit, sends or causes to be sent to a person whom he knows to be an infant
any circular, notice, advertisement, letter, telegram, or other document which
invites or may reasonably be implied to invite the person receiving it to make
any bet or wager, or to enter into or take any share or interest in any
betting or wagering transaction, or to apply to any person or at any place,
with a view to obtaining information or advice for the purpose of any bet or
wager, or for information as to any race, fight, game, sport, or other
contingency upon which betting or wagering is generally carried on, he shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable, if convicted on indictment,
to imprisonment, ... for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not
exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both imprisonment and fine, and if
convicted on summary conviction, to imprisonment, ... for a term not exceeding
one month, or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or to both imprisonment
and fine.

(2) If any such circular, notice, advertisement, letter, telegram, or other
document as in this section mentioned, names or refers to anyone as a person
to whom any payment may be made, or from whom information may be obtained, for
the purpose of or in relation to betting or wagering, the person so named or
referred to shall be deemed to have sent or caused to be sent such document as
aforesaid, unless he proves that he had not consented to be so named, and that
he was not in any way a party to, and was wholly ignorant of, the sending of
such document.

Ss.24 rep. by 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); 1974 c.39 s.192 sch.5 Pt.I


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