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GAMING ACT 1845 


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   2.      What shall be sufficient evidence that a house is a common gaming
           house.
   3.      Justices may by warrant authorize constables to enter houses
           suspected of being common gaming houses, &c.
   4.      Penalties on gaming house keepers, &c. convicted before justices.
   5.      Proof of playing for money, &c. not necessary.
   8.      What shall be deemed evidence of gaming.
   9.      Persons concerned in gaming and giving evidence, to be exempt from
           prosecutions, &c.
   11.     Places kept for public billiard tables to be licensed.
   12.     Penalties for offences against tenor of licences, as for offences
           against tenor of licences granted under 1828 c.61.
   13.     When billiard playing shall not be allowed.
   14.     Constables empowered to visit licensed houses.
   17.     Winning money, &c. by cheating at play, or by sharing stakes, or
           by betting or wagering on the event of any game, to be punished.
   18.     Contracts by way of gaming to be void, and wagers or sums
           deposited with stakeholders not to be recoverable at law.
   21.     Distress not unlawful for want of form, &c.



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