BETTING HOUSES. 469 



intent to induce any person to apply to any house, office, 

 room, or place, or to any person, with the view of obtaining 

 information or advice for the purpose of any such bet or 

 wager with respect to any such event or contingency as is 

 mentioned in the principal Act ; or (3) inviting any person 

 to make or take any share in or in connection with any 

 such bet or wager — every person sending, &c., or causing 

 the same to be sent, &c., shall be subject to the penalties 

 provided as above in the 7th section of the principal Act 

 with respect to offences under that section. 



This enactment is confined to such bets as are mentioned 

 in 16 & 17 Vict. c. 119, s. 1, that is, to bets made in any 

 house, office, or place kept for betting, and therefore does 

 not apply to advertisements offering information for the 

 purpose of bets not to be made in any such house, &c. {q). 

 An advertisement of a racing coupon competition as ordi- 

 narily carried out by the proprietors of sporting newspapers 

 is not an advertisement inviting the persons who read it 

 to make bets on the event or contingency of or relating to 

 a horse-race, as such a transaction does not amount to bet- 

 ting within the meaning of the principal Act (r). 



A justice of the peace, upon complaint made on oath, may Power to 

 authorize the search of any suspected house or place by ^^^^fi ?^^' 

 special warrant to a constable, who may obtain necessary ''^'^ ^ 

 assistance, and also use force if required to make an entry, 

 and arrest, search, and bring before a justice of the peace 

 aU persons found there, and seize all lists, cards or other 

 documents relating to racing or betting (s). But the 

 warrant and arrest above provided for do not dispense with 

 the necessity of a regular information and summons giving 

 the defendant notice of the charges made against him ; 

 and the want of such information and summons will 

 render the proceedings on the hearing invalid {t). The 

 information may be laid before one justice only {u). 



An information which charged the defendant with having 

 on the 5th of October, and on divers other days, kept 

 and used a house for the purpose of betting with persons 

 resorting thereto, was held good as not alleging more than 

 one offence, and a conviction for so keeping and using the 



(q) Cox Y. Andrews, 12 Q. B. D. 64 L. J., M. C. 234. 

 126 ; 53 L. J., M. C. 34 ; 32 W. R. (s) 16 & 17 Vict. c. 119, s. 11, 



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{r) Caminada v. Halton, 60 L. J. 

 M. C. 116; 64 L. T.,N. S. 572 

 39 "W. E, 540 ; 55 J. P. 727 ; Stod- 

 dart T. Sagar, [1896] 2 Q. B. 474 



(t) Slake r. Seech, 1 Ex. D. 320 ; 

 45 L. J., M. C. Ill ; 24 L. T., 

 N. S. 764. 



{ti) Zeev. Gold, 44 J. P. 395. 



