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GAMING HOUSES ACT 1854 - SECT 4

Penalty on persons keeping gaming houses, &c.

4. Any person, being the owner or occupier or having the use of any house,
room, or place, who shall open, keep, or use the same for the purpose of
unlawful gaming being carried on therein, and any person who, being the owner
or occupier of any house or room, shall knowingly and wilfully permit the same
to be opened, kept, or used by any other person for the purpose aforesaid, and
any person having the care or management of or in any manner assisting in
conducting the business of any house, room, or place opened, kept, or used for
the purpose aforesaid, and any person who shall advance or furnish money for
the purpose of gaming with persons frequenting such house, room, or place,
may, on summary conviction thereof before any two justices of the peace, be
adjudged by such justices to forfeit and pay such penalty, not exceeding five
hundred pounds, as to such justices shall seem fit, and may be further
adjudged by such justices to pay such costs attending such conviction as to
them shall seem reasonable; and on the nonpayment of such penalty and costs,
or in the first instance, if to the said justices it shall seem fit, may be
committed to [prison] ... for any time not exceeding twelve calendar months.

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