Clause 17

Whenever it appears to a Magistrate upon the trial of any offence under this Ordinance, that the place in or in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed is a common gaming house, and that the same is fitted or provided with any of the means or contrivances mentioned in section 16 of this Ordinance, he shall order the demolition and destruction of such of them as consist of staircases, doors, partitions, ladders, planks, platforms, posts, palings, bars, bolts and other things which appear to him to have been specially erected or constructed for the purpose of facilitating the carrying on of gaming on the premises.