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(1) This Act does not include any game whrch rs being played occasionally without involving any money and merety for the sake of ent€rtainment or any game pldyed for specific period on the eve of any festival after obtaining due permission from the competent authority. Witness indemnilied Gaming and sefting bitds and animals tc ".ht in :( pu. str€. . Exemption of games of mere skill. Offences 14 by whom tiable. Penalty 15 forsub- sequent ofrence. Portion of 16 fine may be paid to the hformer. Recovety of fines. 17 Powerto 18 make rules. 160 Provided that the District Magistrate may, taking into account the provisions of thisAct, dispose of the application seeking permission for a game to be played within their jurisdiction. Offences under this Act shall be kiable by any Magistrate having iurisdiction in the place where the offence is committed. However, such Magistrate shall be restrained within the limits of his jurlsdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 as to the amount ot fine or imprisonment he may inflict. Whoever, having been convicted of an offence punishable under sections 3 and 4 of this Act, again is found guilty of any offence punishable undereither sections shall be subject for every such subsequent offence to double the amount of punishment to which he would have been liable for the first commission of an offence of the same description. The Magistrate trying the case may direct any portion of any fine which shall be,levied under section 3 or section 4 or section 15 of thisAct, or any part of the monies or proceeds or afticles seized and ordered to be forfeited under this Act, to b'e paid to the informer. All fines imposed under this Act may be recovered in the manner prescilbed in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. (1) The State'Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) Every rule made by the Government under this Act, ' shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly, while it is in session, for a total period of ten days which may be comprised in one session, or in two or more successive sessions, and il before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid, immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the Legislative Assembly make any modification in the rule or resolves that the rule should be made, the rule shallthBreafier have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect as the case may be, so however, that such modiflcation or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.