Singapore legislation

Clause 4

Offences

(1)

Any person who —

(a)

being the owner or occupier or having the use temporarily or otherwise thereof keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house; or

(b)

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; or

(c)

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; or

(d)

receives directly or indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in any event or contingency connected with a public lottery or sells or offers for sale or gives or delivers or collects any lottery ticket; or

(e)

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; or

(f)

writes, prints or publishes or causes to be written, printed or published any lottery ticket or list of prizes or any announcement of the result of a public lottery or any announcement or riddle relating to a public lottery; or

(g)

announces or publishes or causes to be announced or published, either orally or 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 6, 7 or 8 of this Ordinance; or

(h)

conducts in or through any newspaper or any other periodical publication, or in connection with any trade or business or the sale of any article to the public —

(i)

any competition in which prizes are offered for forecasts of the results either of a future event or of a past event the result of which is not yet ascertained or not yet generally known; or

(ii)

any other competition success in which does not depend to a substantial degree upon the exercise of skill,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding six thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(2)

Any person who occupies or has the use temporarily of a place which is kept or used by another person as a common gaming house shall unless such person proves that he has no knowledge that the place is kept or used as a common gaming house be deemed to have permitted such place to be so kept or used.

Read in full context — Common Gaming Houses Ordinance →