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Gaming (Amendment) Act (No. 48 of 1961) - Sect 6

Amendment of section 22 of the principal enactment. [ 5, 26 of 1957.]

6. Section 22 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
(a) in the definition of " unlawful gaming " by the addition, immediately after paragraph (2) of the definition, of the following new paragraph: -
" (3) the act of playing, in any place whatsoever whether for a stake or not, a game of chance or of mixed chance and skill with any instrument or appliance the importation of which is prohibited by Order made under subsection (1) of section 3a, whether or not such instrument or appliance is one that has been actually imported into Ceylon and whether or not it is one the importation of which into Ceylon has been before the coming into force of such Order ;" ; and
(b) by the substitution, for the definition of " common gaming place", of the following definition :-


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