Common Gaming Houses Act
(CHAPTER 49)

Long Title

1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 Gaming houses declared public nuisances
4 Offences
5 Assisting in carrying on a public lottery, etc.
6 Advancing or furnishing money for establishing or conducting
7 Gaming in a common gaming house
8 Gaming in public
9 Buying a ticket
10 Money paid recoverable
11 Presumptions
12 Sale of lottery tickets to be void
13 Search warrants against premises
14 Search warrants against persons
15 Arrest without warrant
16 Police officer not below the rank of assistant superintendent may himself enter and search
17 Presumptions
18 Obstruction of police officers
19 Protection of informers from discovery
20 Examination of offenders
21 Professional gamblers not being citizens of Singapore may be banished by order of Minister
22 Jurisdiction of courts
23 Binding over on second conviction
24 Exemption

Legislative History

Exemption
24.
—(1)  The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, either generally or in any particular case and subject to such conditions as he may impose, exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Act any person or organisation in respect of any public lottery or gaming conducted under the control or supervision of such person or organisation.
(2)  It shall be lawful for any person to participate in any public lottery or gaming exempted under subsection (1).
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