The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE SS. 231-233 87
or the public are obstructed in the exercise or enjoyment of
any right common to all Her Majesty’s subjects, and by
which injury is caused to the person of some person;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
231. Bawdy Houses. Any person who keeps a house, room, set of rooms,
or place of any kind whatever, for purposes of prostitution, is guilty of a
misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three
years.
232. Gaming Houses. A person who-
(1) Keeps for gain any place to which persons resort for the
purpose of playing at any game of chance; or
(2) Keeps any place which is kept or used for playing therein at
any game of chance, or any game of mixed chance and skill,
and in Which-
(a) A bank is kept by one or more of the players exclusively
of the others; or
(b) Any game is played the chances of which are not alike
favourable to all the players, including the banker or other
persons by whom the game is managed, or against whom
the other players stake, play, or bet;
is said to keep a common gaming house.
Any person who keeps a common gaming house is guilty of a
m~sdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three
years.
QUS~S. (I ) Any house, room, or place, which is used for
any of the purposes following, that is to say,-
(1) For the purposes of bets being made therein between persons
resorting to the place and-
(a) the owner, occupier, or keeper of the place, or any person
using the place; or
(b) any person procured or employed by or acting for or on
behalf of any such owner, occupier, or keeper, or person
using the place; or
(c) any -prson having the care or management, or in any
manner conducting the business, of the place; or
(2) For the purpose of any money or other property being paid
or received therein by or on behalf of any such owner,
occupier, or keeper, or person using the place, as or for
the consideration-
(d) for an assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement,
express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or
other property on any event or contingency of or relating
to any horse race, or other race, fight, game, sport, or
exercise; or
(e) for securing the paying or giving by some other person of
any money or other property on any such event or contingency;
is called a common betting house.
Any person who opens, keeps, or uses, a common betting house is
guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour
for three years.