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GAMING HOUSES ACT 1854 - SECT 2

Obstructing entry of constable, &c. to be evidence of house being used as a common gaming house.

2. Where any constable or officer authorized as aforesaid to enter any house,
room, or place is wilfully prevented from or obstructed or delayed in entering
the same or any part thereof, or where any external or internal door of or
means of access to any such house, room, or place so authorized to be entered
shall be found to be fitted or provided with any bolt, bar, chain, or any
means or contrivance for the purpose of preventing, delaying, or obstructing
the entry into the same or any part thereof of any constable or officer
authorized as aforesaid, or for giving an alarm in case of such entry, or if
any such house, room, or place is found fitted or provided with any means or
contrivance for unlawful gaming, or with any means or contrivance for
concealing, removing, or destroying any instruments of gaming, it shall be
evidence, until the contrary be made to appear, that such house, room, or
place is used as a common gaming house within the meaning of this Act and of
the former Acts relating to gaming and that the persons found therein were
unlawfully playing therein.

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