Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

GAMES, WAGERS AND BETTING HOUSES ACT 1901 (REPEALED) - SECT 10

If any house, room, premises or place suspected to be used as a common gaming house or place for gaming is entered under a warrant under the provisions of this Act, the discovery in it or about the person of any of those found in it of instruments of gaming used in playing any unlawful game shall be evidence—

        (a)     that the house, room, premises or place is used as a common gaming house; and

        (b)     that the persons found in the room or place where the instruments were discovered were playing in it although no play was actually going on in the presence of the police officer entering under the warrant or his or her assistants.