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BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 13

Other restrictions on use of licensed offices.

13.(1) A person shall not

(a) carry on or permit to be carried on in a licensed office any trade,
profession or business whatsoever except the business of bookmaking which for
this purpose shall not include any business the carrying on of which involves
or may involve any sums becoming payable by him by way of pool betting duty
under [Part III of the Act of 1972];

(b)set up or maintain in or outside a licensed office any attraction which
causes or encourages or is likely to cause or encourage persons to congregate
in or outside that office;

(c)permit overcrowding or loitering in a licensed office;

(d)use any wireless receiver or other apparatus for the purpose of
broadcasting, televising or relaying, so as to be audible or visible inside
the part of a licensed office to which members of the public have access or
outside a licensed office, the running of any race;

(e)proclaim or announce or permit any other person to proclaim or announce in
a licensed office the terms or odds on or at which he is willing to take bets
in respect of any particular race, match, or other contest, or in respect of
any competitor in any such contest;

(f)exhibit or permit to be exhibited in or outside a licensed office so as to
be seen from the street any list or statement of the terms or odds on or at
which he is willing to take bets in respect of any particular race, match, or
other contest, or in respect of any competitor in any such contest or any list
or statement of the competitors entered for or withdrawn from or taking part
in or likely to take part in any such contest, or any statement of fact or any
forecast in respect of any such contest, or any other incitement or inducement
to bet;

(g)employ a person under the age of eighteen in or about a licensed office;

(h)employ any person in or about a licensed office whose application for
a certificate of character has been refused by any court.

(2) Any person who acts in contravention of sub-section (1) shall be guilty of
an offence.

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