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BETTING ACT 1853 - SECT 3

Penalty on owner or occupier of betting house.

3. Any person who being the owner or occupier of any house, office, room, or
other place, or a person using the same, shall open, keep, or use the same for
the purposes herein-before mentioned, or either of them; and any person who
being the owner or occupier of any house, room, office, or other place, shall
knowingly and wilfully permit the same to be opened, kept, or used by any
other person for the purposes aforesaid, or either of them; and any person
having the care or management of or in any manner assisting in conducting the
business of any house, office, room, or place, opened, kept, or used for the
purposes aforesaid, or either of them; shall, on summary conviction thereof
before any two justices of the peace, be liable to forfeit and pay such
penalty, not exceeding one hundred pounds, as shall be adjudged by such
justices, and may be further adjudged by such justices to pay such costs
attending such conviction as to the said justices shall seem reasonable, and
on the nonpayment of such penalty and costs, or in the first instance, if to
the said justices it shall seem fit, may be committed to [prison]... for any
time not exceeding six calendar months.

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