Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

UNLAWFUL BETTING ACT 1989

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  

   PART II--APPLICATION OF LAWS TO CONTRACTS AND DISPOSITIONS

   4.      Contracts relating to unlawful betting  
   5.      Disposition of property as result of unlawful betting  

   PART III--INVESTIGATION OF OFFENCES

   6.      Arrest and removal of offender  
   7.      Protection from liability for actions under Act  
   8.      Hindering police  
   9.      Owner may evict occupier of house used in contravention of Act  
   10.     Cancellation of notice to quit  
   11.     Protection of witnesses  
   12.     Immunity of police and others  
   13.     Powers of entry without warrant  
   14.     Entry of adjoining place  
   15.     Powers of search  

   PART IV--OFFENCES

           Division 1--Miscellaneous offences

   16.     Offence to be in place used for unlawful betting  
   17.     False name  
   18.     Unlawful betting  

           Division 2--Assisting Unlawful Betting

   19.     Criminal agreement  
   20.     Criminal transport  
   21.     Exhibiting document as to betting  
   22.     Advertising as to betting  
   23.     Possession of betting proceeds  
   24.     Giving warning of approach of police, &c.  
   25.     Access to place used for unlawful betting  
   26.     Managing betting place  
   27.     Instruments of betting  
   28.     Loans for unlawful betting  

           Division 3--Bookmaking offences

   29.     Soliciting bets  
   30.     Acting as betting agent  
   31.     Unlawful bookmaking  
   32.     Loans to bookmakers  

           Division 4--Bookmaking business

   33.     Bookmaking business  

           Division 5--Penalties

   34.     Penalties for offences against Part IV  

   PART V--EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE

   35.     Previous findings of guilt admissible  
   36.     Hearsay evidence  
   37.     Averments  
   38.     Proof of certain matters  
   39.     Proof of exceptions  
   40.     Person named in document deemed sender  
   41.     Reasonable suspicion prima facie evidence  
   42.     Not necessary to prove that person found betting for money, &c.  
   43.     Possession of betting acknowledgement  
   44.     Evidence that place used for unlawful betting  
   45.     Bank on place  
   46.     Effect of discovery of instruments of betting  
   47.     Silent telephone evidence of unlawful betting  
   48.     Notices on place  
   49.     Place deemed not private  
   50.     Person present at betting place  
   51.     Equipment on place  
   52.     Evidence of unlawful bookmaking  
   53.     Receipt of money  
   54.     Procuring bets  
   55.     Evidence as to offences  

   PART VI--MISCELLANEOUS

   56.     Offences by bodies corporate  
   57.     Time limit, &c., for complaint  
   58.     Forfeiture  
   59.     Regulatory offence  
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