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UNLAWFUL BETTING ACT - SECT 5

Disposition of property as result of unlawful betting

    (1)     Notwithstanding any Act relating to the registration of title to real or personal property, but subject to subsection (2), a disposition of property made, or a contract to dispose of property entered into, by way of payment of or security for a debt incurred or which may be incurred by a person as a consequence of unlawful betting is ineffectual.

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) shall invalidate a disposition of property by a party to a contract referred to in that subsection for valuable consideration where the person to whom the disposition was mad:

        (a)     was not a party to the contract; and

        (b)     had not, at the time of the disposition, notice that the property was the subject of or the whole or part of the consideration for the contract; and

        (c)     otherwise acted in good faith.



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