Section 4Part 0 —
Offences
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A person who —
being the owner or occupier, or having the use temporarily or otherwise thereof, keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house;
permits a place of which he is owner or occupier or of which he has the use temporarily or otherwise, to be kept or used by another person as a common gaming house;
has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in the management of a place kept or used as a common gaming house, or assists in carrying on a public lottery;
receives directly or indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event, or contingency connected with a public lottery, or sells or offers for sale, or gives or delivers any lottery ticket;
draws, throws, declares or exhibits, expressly or otherwise, the winner or winning number, ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol or other result of any public lottery;
writes, prints, or publishes, or causes to be written, printed or published, any lottery ticket, list of prizes, any announcement of the result of a public lottery or any announcement relating to a public lottery;
announces or publishes, or causes to be announced or published, either orally by means of any print, writing, design, sign or otherwise, that any place is opened, kept, or used as a common gaming house, or in any other manner invites or solicits any person to commit a breach of section 5 or 6;
advances or furnishes money for the purpose of establishing or conducting the business of a common gaming house or for the purpose of a public lottery; or
commits an act of unlawful gaming,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of four hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for twelve months.