Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

UNLAWFUL BETTING ACT

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.     Construction, &c., of instrument 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