Section 22Part 0 —
Offences
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anyone who gives or sells or offers for sale any paper, ticket or token authorising or for the purpose of enabling or entitling any person to receive any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any game, pretended game or lottery called or known as Peaka Pow or Drop Pan or to any game of a similar nature or to any lottery, raffle, game or pretended game of chance;
any person or persons attending or assembling in any public or private place for the purpose of ascertaining or waiting for the result of any such event or contingency as aforesaid; or
any person who on or under any pretence, device, form, denomination or description whatsoever shall pay or agree or promise to pay any sum or sums of money, or shall deliver or agree or promise to deliver any goods, or shall do or forbear doing or shall agree or promise to do or forbear doing anything for the benefit of any person or persons, whether with or without consideration, on any event or contingency arising upon or relative or applicable to the drawing or choice by chance or otherwise of any ticket or tickets, lot or lots, number or numbers, figure or figures, or on any event or contingency arising upon or relative or applicable to the displaying or declaring of any winning number or numbers, figure or figures, token or tokens, ticket or tickets, lot or lots in any lottery, raffle, game or pretended game of chance, or shall publish any proposal for the purposes aforesaid,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of forty dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for two months, with or without hard labour.
Any constable may arrest without warrant any person whom he finds committing any offence against subsection (1).
In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the onus of proving that any paper, ticket or token authorising or for the purpose of enabling or entitling any person to receive any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any game, pretended game or lottery called or known as Peaka Pow or Drop Pan, or any game of a similar nature, or to any lottery, raffle, game or pretended game of chance, is not a paper, ticket or token within the meaning of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), shall be upon the person accused of giving, selling or offering the same for sale.