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BETTING ACT 1853 - SECT 1

No house, &c. to be kept for purpose of owner or occupier betting with other persons.

1. No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for
the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the
same, or any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such
owner, occupier, or keeper, or person using the same, or of any person having
the care or management or in any manner conducting the business thereof
betting with persons resorting thereto; or for the purpose of any money or
valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper,
or person as aforesaid as or for the consideration for any assurance,
undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give
thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or
relating to any horse race, or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or
as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other
person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as
aforesaid; and every house, office, room, or other place opened, kept, or used
for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, is hereby declared to be a common
nuisance and contrary to law.

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