Extent:
2. [Repeal of enactments.].
3. "Gaming" defined.
(a) on the day on which such race is to be run, and
(b) in an enclosure which the licensee of the race-course, on which such race is to be run, has set apart for the purpose under the terms of the licence issued under section 4 of the [Bombay Race-Courses Licensing Act, 1912]
[(c) between any individual in person, being present in the enclosure, on the one hand, and such licensee or other person licensed by such licensee in terms of the aforesaid licence on the other hand [or between] any number of individuals in person in such manner and by such contrivance as may be permitted by such licence; but does not include a lottery.]
Instruments of gaming defined:
Common gaming house defined:
(i) in the case of gaming-
(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or
(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or
(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or
(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or
(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, [or]
[(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or nonoccurrence of any uncertain future event or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, numbers, events or draws;]
(ii) in the case of any other form of gaming, any house, room or place whatsoever in which any instruments of gaming arc kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, room or place by way of charge for the use of such house, room or place or instrument or otherwise howsoever.
`Place' defined:
[3A. Punishment for printing or publishing [pictures, digits or figures] relating to Worli Matka or other form of gaming.
Section 1 • The Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act, 1887
1. Short title.
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