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GAMING ACT 1845 - SECT 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.

17. Every person who shall, by any fraud or unlawful device or ill practice in
playing at or with cards, dice, tables, or other game, or in bearing a part in
the stakes, wagers, or adventures, or in betting on the sides or hands of them
that do play, or in wagering on the event of any game, sport, pastime, or
exercise, win from any other person to himself, or any other or others, any
sum of money or valuable thing, shall

[(a)on conviction on indictment, be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years; or

(b)on summary conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
six months or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds, or to both.]

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