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Penalty for owning or keeping or having oitarge of oomrnon gaming house. 3i "Wliuevcr, being the owner or occupier or having the use of any house, room, tent, walled enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel or any place whatsoever, opens, keeps, or uses the same as a common gaming house; and whoever, being the owner or occupier of any such house, room, tent, walled enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel or place as aforesaid, knowingly or wilfully permits the same to be opened, occupied, used or kept by any other person as a common gaming house; The TVrs/: Bengal Baiiihling and Prize Competitions 3 Act, 1057. XXXII of 1957.] {Chapter 11.—Prevention of Gambling.—^Sections 4, 5.) and whoeyer lias the care or maTiagement of, or in any manner assists in conducting the business of any house, room, tent, walled enclosure, sjiace, vehicle, vessel or place as aforesaid opened, occupied, used or kept for the purpose aforesaid: and whoever advances or furnishes money for the purpose of gaming' with jiersoiis frequenting such house, room, tent, walled enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel or place as aforesaid; shall be punishable on conviction, with fine not exceed ing five hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term not . exceeding three months or with both. 4« Whoever is found in any house, room, tent, walled Penalty for enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel or any place referred to in section 3 plajdng or gaming with cards, dice, counters, common money or other instruments of gaming, or is found there gaming present for the purpose of gaming, whether playing for any house, money, wager, stake or otherwise, shall be punishable, on conviction, with fine not exceeding two huudred rupees or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or with both; and any person found in any common gaming house during any gaming or playing therein shall be presumed, until the contrary be i^roved, to have been there for the purposes of gaming.