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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 143

Disorderly houses

(1)  A person who keeps any disorderly house– that is to say, any common gaming-house, or common betting-house– is guilty of a crime.
Charge:  Keeping a disorderly house.
(2)  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(3)  Any one who appears to be or acts or behaves as master or mistress, or as the person having the care, government, or management, of any such disorderly house, shall be deemed to be the keeper thereof, and shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished as such, although, in fact, he or she is not the real owner or keeper thereof.
(4)  The owner of any house, or any tenant, lessee, or occupier thereof, or of any part thereof, who knowingly permits such house or any part thereof to be kept as a disorderly house shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished as if he were the keeper of such house.


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