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BETTING ACT 1874

BETTING ACT 1874 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Act of sixteenth and seventeenth Victoria,
chapter one hundred and nineteen, intituled ""The Betting Act,
1853.''
[8th June 1874]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

BETTING ACT 1874 - SECT 1
Act to be construed with 1853 c.119.

1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Betting Act, 1853
(in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and the principal
Act and this Act may be cited together as "The Betting Acts, 1853
and 1874," and each of them may be cited separately as "The
Betting Act" of the year in which it was passed.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

BETTING ACT 1874 - SECT 3
Penalty on persons advertising as to betting.

3. Where any letter, circular, telegram, placard, handbill, card, or
advertisement is sent, exhibited, or published

(1)Whereby it is made to appear that any person, either in the
United Kingdom or elsewhere, will on application give information or
advice for the purpose of or with respect to any such bet or
wager, or any such event or contingency as is mentioned in the
principal Act, or will make on behalf of any other person any such
bet or wager as is mentioned in the principal Act; or,

(2)With intent to induce any person to apply to any house, office,
room, or place, or to any person, with the view of obtaining
information or advice for the purpose of any such bet or wager or
with respect to any such event or contingency as is mentioned in
the principal Act; or

(3)Inviting any person to make or take any share in or in
connection with any such bet or wager;