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The Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970 Act No.8 of 1970

Meghalaya

An Act to provide for the prevention of gambling and for matters connected therewith

Act number
8 of 1970
Ministry
Meghalaya Law Department
Department
Law Department
Enacted
25 Oct 1970

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22 sections

  1. Section 1Short title, and commencement.
  2. Section 2Definitions.
  3. Section 3Penalty for owning, keeping or having charge of a common gaming house.
  4. Section 4Penalty for assisting gambling.
  5. Section 5Penalty for being found in common gaming house.
  6. Section 6Power of Police Officer to enter and search.
  7. Section 7Finding instruments of gaming in suspected houses to be evidence that they are common gaming houses.
  8. Section 8Penalty for giving for stakes unnecessary
  9. Section 9Destruction of instruments of gaming and payment of reward to informers.
  10. Section 10Proof for playing for stakes unnecessary.
  11. Section 11Gaming in public places.
  12. Section 12Power of Police Officer to enter premises and arrest persons, printing, etc., matters relating to gambling.
  13. Section 13Exemptions
  14. Section 14Indemnity of witnesses.
  15. Section 15Penalty for subsequent offence.
  16. Section 15AOffences under sections 3 and 4 non bailable
  17. Section 16Searches how to be made.
  18. Section 17Protection of action taken
  19. Section 18Recovery of fines.
  20. Section 19Power to make rules.
  21. Section 20Repeal of the Public Gambling Act, 1967 (Central Act 3 of 1867).
  22. Section 21Amendment of Assam Amusements and Betting Tax Act, 1980 (Assam Act 6 of 1939).