South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts90—Keeping house for purpose of gaming
(1) No house, office,
room, or place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of—
(a)
unlawful gaming:
(b) the
occupier betting with persons resorting thereto:
(c) any
money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of the occupier as or
for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement,
express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or any valuable thing
on any event or contingency of or relating to any race, fight, game, sport, or
exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by
some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or
contingency.
(2) Every house,
office, room, or place opened, kept, or used for any of the purposes aforesaid
is hereby declared to be a common nuisance and unlawful.
(3) No person shall be
the occupier of any such house, office, room, or place kept or used for any of
the purposes aforesaid.
Maximum penalty: $20 000 or imprisonment for 1 year.
(4) It shall not be
necessary to prove that the occupier knew that the premises were kept or used
for any of the purposes aforesaid, but such person shall not be convicted if
he proves that he did not know and could not by the exercise of all reasonable
diligence have known that the premises were being so kept or used.