|
|
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback] | |
Northern Irish Legislation |
||
| You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> GAMING HOUSES ACT 1854 | ||
[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]
An Act for the Suppression of Gaming Houses.{1} [24th July 1854] 1845 c.109
[WHEREAS divers statutes have been made from time to time for the prevention
of unlawful gaming; and particularly by the Gaming Act, 1845, powers are given
to justices of the peace in places beyond the Metropolitan Police District to
authorize constables,... to enter houses suspected to be kept as common gaming
houses, and to arrest all persons found therein; and it is thereby enacted,
that where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, or other instruments of
gaming used in playing any unlawful game shall be found in any house, room, or
place suspected to be used as a common gaming house, and entered under a
warrant or order issued under the provisions of that Act, or about the person
of any of those who shall be found therein, it shall be evidence, until the
contrary be made to appear, that such house, room, or place is used as a
common gaming house, and that the persons found in the room or place where
such tables or instruments of gaming shall have been found were playing
therein: And whereas the keepers of common gaming houses contrive, by
fortifying the entrances to such houses, or by other means, to keep out the
officers authorized to enter the same until the instruments of gaming have
been removed or destroyed, so that no sufficient evidence can be obtained to
convict the offenders, who are thereby encouraged to persist in the violation
of the law: And whereas it is expedient that the law shall be made more
efficient for the suppression of gaming houses:]
© 1854 Crown Copyright
BAILII:
Copyright Policy |
Disclaimers |
Privacy Policy |
Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/gha1854147/longtitle.html