Clause 8

Any person who, either personally or by an agent, pays or deposits any money or money’s worth to or with any person concerned in the business of a common gaming house, as a stake or for or in respect of any event or contingency connected with a public lottery or buys a lottery ticket, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

A person in whose possession a lottery ticket is found shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have bought the same.

Every lottery ticket brought or introduced into or being within the State shall be forfeited to the Government, and it shall be the duty of every police officer or other public servant to seize every such ticket wherever found.