ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I
 Preliminary

     SECTION

                 1.        Short title

                 2.        Interpretation

PART II
Lotteries

                 3.        Lotteries deemed lawful

                 4.        Conditions to be observed in promotion of and conduct of lottery

                 5.        Penalties

                 6.        Returns to be made by promoters

PART III
Games of Chance

                 7.        Certain games of chance not unlawful

                 8.        Returns to be made by the promoters

PART IV
Totalizator Control

                 9.        Delegation

                10.        Use of unlicensed totalizator an offence

                11.        Lottery conducted on totalizator not unlawful

                12.        Licensing of totalizator

                13.        Totalizator transactions to be recorded

                14.        Persons under 18 years may not use totalizator

                15.        Limiting commission and prescribing tax

                16.        Act does not validate betting transactions

                17.        Police powers of entry and inspection

                18.        Penalties

PART V
Gaming and Betting

                19.        Gaming houses

                20.        Gaming machines

                21.        Betting houses

                22.        Lotteries

                23.        Keeper of premises defined

PART VI
Miscellaneous

                24.        Regulations

                25.        Declaration of a race

Law 28, 1961,
Law 2, 1963,
Law 3, 1963,
L.N. 55, 1965,
L.N. 84, 1966,
L.N. 94, 1966,
Act 5, 1967,
Act 1, 1980,
Act 25, 1980,
Act 6, 1981,
Act 6, 1983,
Act 15, 1983.

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to lotteries, betting and gaming and matters connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 8th May, 1962]

            (1) A game of chance shall be deemed not to be an unlawful lottery if it is played at an entertainment promoted on behalf of a registered society in accordance with the following conditions, that is to say-

     (a)     the promoter of the entertainment shall be a member of the society authorized in writing by the governing body of the society to act as such;

     (b)     the whole of the proceeds of the payments made (whether by way of entrance fee or stake or otherwise) by the players, after deducting sums lawfully appropriated on account of expenses and for the provision of prizes or awards in respect of the game, are applied to the purposes of the society;

     (c)     the amount of such proceeds appropriated in respect of expenses shall not exceed the reasonable cost of the facilities provided for the purposes of the game;

     (d)     no person under the age of 16 years shall be permitted to play; and

     (e)     the maximum payment made by each player in respect of each game played at an entertainment shall not exceed 10 thebe.

            (2) If any condition required by this section to be observed in respect of a game of chance played at an entertainment is contravened, the promoter of the entertainment and any other person who is a party to the contravention shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding P100 or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

8.       Returns to be made by the promoters

            The provisions of section 6 shall have effect in relation to an entertainment promoted on behalf of a society at which a game of chance is played as it has in relation to a lottery to which section 3 applies.