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BETTING ACT 1853 - SECT 4

Penalty on persons receiving money on condition of paying money on event of any bet.

4. Any person, being the owner or occupier of any house, office, room, or
place, opened, kept, or used for the purposes aforesaid, or either of them, or
any person acting for or on behalf of any such owner or occupier, or any
person having the care or management or in any manner assisting in conducting
the business thereof, who shall receive, directly or indirectly, any money or
valuable thing as a deposit on any bet on condition of paying any sum of money
or other valuable thing on the happening of any event or contingency of or
relating to a horse race or any other race, or any fight, game, sport, or
exercise, or 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 such event or contingency, and any person giving any
acknowledgment, note, security, or draft, on the receipt of any money or
valuable thing so paid or given as aforesaid, purporting or intended to
entitle the bearer or any other person to receive any money or valuable thing
on the happening of any such event or contingency as aforesaid, shall, upon
summary conviction thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay
such penalty, not exceeding fifty 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
such justices, it shall seem fit, may be committed to [prison]... for any time
not exceeding three calendar months.

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