Betting Act 1953

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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]

The Betting Act 1953 (Malay: Akta Pertaruhan 1953), is a Malaysian laws 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 Part.

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)

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