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(1) This Act may be called the extent and' and Betting Act, 1970. AHsam Game commence- ment. Definitions. (2) It shall extend to the whole of Assam excluding the Autonomous State of Meghalaya but including the Municipality of Shillong. (3) It shall come into force at once. :it. For the purpose of this Act, unless contrary intention appears in the context:- (a) "bet" with all its grammatic.al variations means any r:::ioney or a valuable security or thing staked by a person on behalf of himself or on behalf of any other person, by himself or through any agent • or any person procured or employed acting for or on his behalf, to be lost or won on the happening or determination,of an una;Jcer- tained thing, event or contingency of or in relation to a game or sport and shall include acceptance of a bet. Price Rs. 0.15 p. (oniy) , ,,.r . • · I . '- 2 It sha!1 further include wager, vrngering contract, totalisator and pool transaction in relation to any game or sport but shall not include a lottery or betting on a horse race whrn such betting takes place- (i) On the day on which the race has been fixed to run, (ii) in an enclosure which the racing club or the stewards thereof controlling such race have with the permission 01· the State Government set apart for the purpose, and (iii) with a licensed book-maker for horse racing or by means of a totalisator as Assam Act £" defined in section 14 of the Assam V:I of 1939. Amusements and Betting T ax Act, (b)