Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970

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    "slug": "assam-game-and-betting-act-1970-1970",
    "title": "Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970",
    "short_title": "Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act 18 of 1970)",
    "act_year": 1970,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"bet\" with all its grammatical variations means any money 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 or acting for or on his behalf, to be lost or won on the happening or determination of an unascertained thing, event or contingency of, or in relation to a game or sport and shall include acceptance of a bet.\n(i) on the day on which the race has been fixed to run,\n(ii) in an enclosure which the racing club or the stewards thereof controlling such race have with the permission of the State Government set apart for the purpose, and\n(iii) with a licensed book-maker for horse racing or by means of a totalisator as defined in Section 14 of the Assam Amusements and Betting Tax Act, 1939 (Assam Act 6 of 1939).\n(b) \"acceptance of bet\" with all its grammatical variations means the acceptance of a bet as defined in Clause (a) above by any person either on behalf of himself or any other person or through any agent or any person procured or employed acting for or on his behalf, with a promise, undertaking or assurance express or implied for payment of any money or any valuable thing after the happening or determination of an unascertained event or thing in relation to any game or sport.\n(c) \"Betting house\" means any house, room, office, enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel, tent or place which is used for the purpose of betting or for receiving any information of anything including the result of any game or sport or wherein instruments of betting or records of betting are kept or found or whereto visitors are invited for purpose of betting by any advertisement, board or signboard or any visible sign or by any words verbal or in writing ;\n(d) \"instruments of betting\" includes any board, table, tickets, tokens, coupons, books, khatas, slips and all other things which are used in betting or to facilitate betting on a game or sport;\n(e) \"records of betting\" includes any table, board, cloth, writing materials, accounts and account-books, slips, papers, books, khatas, receipts, coupons and all other things which contain or may indicate to have any relation to record of betting ;\n(f) \"District Magistrate\" shall include a Magistrate holding the charge of a sub-division and an Additional District Magistrate and also any Magistrate having the powers of a First Class Magistrate ;\n(g) \"District Superintendent of Police\" includes an Additional and Assistant Superintendent of Police, Deputy Superintendent of Police and any Police Officer, holding the charge of a Sub-division of a District;\n(h) \"person\" shall have the same meaning as defined in the Assam General Clauses Act, 1915 (Assam Act 3 of 1915) and shall include a firm, whether registered or not and also a firm of an undivided Hindu family;\n(i) \"valuable security\" shall have the same meaning as defined in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860) ;\n(j) \"the Act\" means the Public Gambling Act, 1867;\n(k) \"invitation for betting\" means to invite visitors to take part in betting in whichever form or to be present in the betting house, by or through any advertisement or display of any board, sign-board or any other form of visible representation or by words, verbal or in writing.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "3. Amendment of Section 2 of Central Act 3 of 1867.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "\"2. 'Extent'. - This Act shall extend to the whole of Assam excluding the Autonomous State of Meghalaya but including the Municipality of Shillong\".",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "4. Amendment of Section 3 of Central Act 3 of 1867.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "5. Amendment of Section 7 of Central Act 3 of 1867.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "6. Amendment of Section 13 of Central Act 3 of 1867.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to enter and authorise Police to enter and search.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Presumption as to use of any house, room, etc., as a betting house and of a person found therein.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalty on persons arrested for giving false names and addresses.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Destruction of instruments and records of betting and forfeiture of money, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Proof of actual betting unnecessary.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Witnesses indemnified.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Arrest of persons found betting or possessing instruments or records of betting and seizure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Punishment for betting, inviting or accepting betting or possessing instrument or records of betting.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Penalty for owning or keeping or having charge of a betting house.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Presumption as to betting.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Punishment of communicating and receiving information about result of or in relation to betting.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Presumption and evidence in respect of instrument of betting and taking part in betting.",
            "chapter": "part in",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Presumption and evidence in respect of records of betting.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Finding of tickets, tokens etc., in suspected houses to be evidence that they are instruments or records of betting and that such houses are betting houses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Offences cognisable, non-bailable, and special procedure for granting bails.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Amendment of Chapter II of Assam Act 6 of 1939.",
            "chapter": "Chapter II",
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Repeal and saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Schedule\n[ See Section 22]\nAmendments to Chapter II of the Assam Amusements and Betting Tax Act, 1939\nAmendments to Chapter II of the Assam Amusements and Betting Tax Act, 1939\n(i) Clause (3-A) shall be deleted ;\n(ii) Clause (7) shall be deleted.",
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        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass269]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act 18 of 1970)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1970",
        "Short Title": "Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}