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APPENDIX. 



Short title. 



Commence- 

 ment of Act. 



Penalty on 

 persons 

 advertising as 

 to betting. 



Extension to 

 Scotland. 



tuled "An Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses" (in this 

 Act referred to as the principal Act), and the principal Act and 

 this Act may be cited together as the Betting Acts, 1863 and 

 1874, and each of them may be cited separately as the Betting 

 Act of the year in which it was passed. 



2. This Act shall not come into operation until the thirty- 

 first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. 



3. Where any letter, circular, telegram, placard, handbill, 

 card, or advertisement is sent, exhibited, or published,— 



(1) Whereby it is made to appear that any person, either in 



the United Kingdom or elsewhere, will on application 

 give information or advice for the purpose of or with 

 respect to any such bet or wager, or any such event 

 or contingency as is mentioned in the principal Act, 

 or will make on behalf of any other person any such 

 bet or wager as is mentioned in the principal Act ; 

 or, 



(2) With intent to induce any person to apply to any house, 



ofBoe, room, or place, or to any person, with the view 

 of obtaining information or advice for the purpose of 

 any such bet or wager or 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, exhibiting, or publishing, or causing the 

 same to be sent, exhibited, or published, shall be subject to the 

 penalties provided in the seventh section of the principal Act 

 with respect to offences under that section. 



4. The twentieth section of the principal Act is hereby 

 repealed, and the principal Act as amended by this Act, shall 

 extend to Scotland, with the following modifications and provi- 

 sions : 



(1) The term " distress " shall mean poinding and sale : 

 The term " misdemeanour " shall mean a crime and 



ofi'ence : 



(2) All offences or penalties under this Act and the princi- 



pal Act shall be prosecuted and recovered before the 

 sheriff of the county or his substitute in the sheriff 

 court, at the instance of the procurator fiscal, or of 

 any private person, under the provisions of the 

 Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and all the jurisdic- 

 tions, powers, and authorities necessary for the 

 purposes of this section are hereby conferred on the 

 sheriffs and their substitutes : 



(3) Every pecuniary penalty which is adjudged to be paid 



under this or the principal Act, shall be paid to the 

 clerk of the court, and shall be by him accounted for 



