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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 1

1.(1) A person shall not carry on business or act as a bookmaker or hold
himself out or represent himself to be a bookmaker unless he holds a valid and
subsisting licence (in this Part referred to as "a bookmaker's licence")
issued to him under section four permitting him to carry on the business of a
bookmaker and any person who holds a bookmaker's licence is in this Part
referred to as "a licensed bookmaker".

(2) A person who acts in contravention of sub-section (1) shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction for a first offence to a
fine of not less than one hundred pounds nor more than five hundred pounds and
for a second or subsequent offence to such fine and to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding three months.

© 1957 Crown Copyright

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