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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 17

Persons under the age of eighteen.

17.(1) Any person who makes a bet or engages in a betting transaction with a
person under the age of eighteen whether such person is acting on his own
behalf or as agent for another person shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Where a person is charged with having committed an offence under this
section it shall be a good defence for him to prove that he believed and had
reasonable cause for believing that the person in respect of whom such offence
is alleged to have been committed was of or over the age of eighteen.


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