Betting Act 1953

Betting Act 1953
An Act to suppress betting houses and betting in public places.
Citation Act 495
Territorial extent Throughout Malaysia
Date enacted 1953 (Ord. No. 47 of 1953)
Revised: 1992 (Act 495 w.e.f. 15 October 1992)
Date effective [Peninsular Malaysia—15 October 1953;
Sabah, Sarawak and Federal Territory of Labuan—15 April 1992, P.U. (B) 164/1992, P.U. (B) 165/1992]
Amends

Federal Constitution (Modification of Laws) (Ordinance and Proclamations) Order 1958 [L.N. 332/1958]
Banishment Ordinance 1959 [Ord. 11/1959]
Betting (Amendment) Act 1961 [Act 8/1961]
Betting (Amendment) Act 1989 [Act A741]
Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the Federal Territory of Labuan) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 376/1991]

Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the States of Sabah and Sarawak) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 377/1991]
Related legislation
Racing (Totalizator Board) Act 1961 [Act 494]
Status: In force

The Betting Act 1953 (Malay: Akta Pertaruhan 1953), is a Malaysian law which enacted to suppress betting houses and betting in public places.

Structure

The Betting Act 1953, in its current form (1 January 2006), consists of 22 sections and no schedule (including 6 amendments), without separate parts.

  • Section 1: Short title
  • Section 2: Interpretation
  • Section 3: Nuisance
  • Section 4: Offences relating to common betting houses and betting information centres
  • Section 5: Advancing money for conducting
  • Section 6: Betting in a common betting house, and book-making
  • Section 6A: Penalty for publication or announcement of result of horse race
  • Section 7: Money paid recoverable
  • Section 8: Presumption against person accepting or receiving stakes, etc.
  • Section 9: Presumption against house and occupier
  • Section 9A: Presumptions against betting information centre and occupier
  • Section 10: Presumption against house, occupier, and owner
  • Section 11: Order for demolition of structural contrivances for facilitating betting
  • Section 12: Search warrant against premises
  • Section 13: Search warrant against persons
  • Section 13A: Arrest and search upon suspicion
  • Section 14: Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or Senior Police Officer may search
  • Section 14A: Evidence by police officer to be presumptive evidence
  • Section 15: Protection of informers from discovery
  • Section 16: Examination of offenders
  • Section 17: Binding over on second conviction
  • Section 18: Trial
  • Section 19: Stakes
  • Section 20: Exemption from Act
  • Section 21: Reward to informer
  • Section 22: (Omitted)

References

    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.