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LOTTERY AND GAMING ACT 1936 - SECT 69

69—Removal from racecourses etc of persons suspected of offences

        (1)         If any member of the police force has reasonable grounds for suspecting that on any place upon which any horse racing, dog racing, foot racing, cycle racing, football match, cricket match, or any other sport of a kind usually attended by the public, is then being carried on, or on any other place any person is guilty of, or has on that day been guilty of, unlawful gaming, that member of the police force may, without warrant arrest that person and remove him from that place.

        (2)         No person who has been so removed from any such place shall, during the day on which he was so removed, re-enter or be again upon that place, or any place contiguous thereto.

Maximum penalty: $2 500.

        (3)         No member of the police force who has acted bona fide in the intended exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of this section shall be liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in consequence of his having so acted.



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