Betting Act 1953

Betting Act 1953
Betting Act 1953
	Long title An Act to suppress betting houses and betting in public places. ;
Citation	Act 495
Territorial extent	Throughout Malaysia
Enacted	1953 (Ord. No. 47 of 1953); Revised: 1992 (Act 495 w.e.f. 15 October 1992)
Effective	[Peninsular Malaysia—15 October 1953;; Sabah, Sarawak and Federal Territory of Labuan—15 April 1992, P.U. (B) 164/1992, P.U. (B) 165/1992]
Amended by
	Federal Constitution (Modification of Laws) (Ordinance and Proclamations) Order 1958 [L.N. 332/1958]; Banishment Ordinance 1959 [Ord. 11/1959]; Betting (Amendment) Act 1961 [Act 8/1961]; Betting (Amendment) Act 1989 [Act A741]; Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the Federal Territory of Labuan) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 376/1991]; Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the States of Sabah and Sarawak) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 377/1991]
Related legislation
	Racing (Totalizator Board) Act 1961 [Act 494]
	Status: In force

The Betting Act 1953 (Malay: Akta Pertaruhan 1953), is a Malaysian law enacted to suppress betting houses and betting in public places.

Structure[edit]

The Betting Act 1953, in its current form (1 January 2006), consists of 22 sections and no schedule (including 6 amendments), without separate parts.

Section 1: Short title
Section 2: Interpretation
Section 3: Nuisance
Section 4: Offences relating to common betting houses and betting information centres
Section 5: Advancing money for conducting
Section 6: Betting in a common betting house, and book-making
Section 6A: Penalty for publication or announcement of result of a horse race
Section 7: Money paid recoverable
Section 8: Presumption against person accepting or receiving stakes, etc.
Section 9: Presumption against house and occupier
Section 9A: Presumptions against betting information centre and occupier
Section 10: Presumption against house, occupier, and owner
Section 11: Order for demolition of structural contrivances for facilitating betting
Section 12: Search warrant against premises
Section 13: Search warrant against persons
Section 13A: Arrest and search upon suspicion
Section 14: Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or Senior Police Officer may search
Section 14A: Evidence by police officer to be presumptive evidence
Section 15: Protection of informers from discovery
Section 16: Examination of offenders
Section 17: Binding over on second conviction
Section 18: Trial
Section 19: Stakes
Section 20: Exemption from Act
Section 21: Reward to informer
Section 22: (Omitted)

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