Office of Public Sector Information
Page 1 of 1
This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to SLD for the following years: 2005 and 2006. See the Tables of Legislative effects and the Update status of legislation page on the SLD website.
F1An Act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming.
F1Act repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. XI
C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Preamble repealed by Betting and Gaming Act 1960 (c. 60), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F1Ss. 1—3, 5—10, 12 repealed by Betting and Gaming Act 1960 (c. 60), Sch.6 Pt. I
And all and every . . . F1 sale or sales of houses, lands, advowsons, presentations to livings, plate, jewels, ships, goods, or other things, by any game, lottery or lotteries, machine, engine, or other device whatsoever, depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot shall and are hereby declared to be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; . . . F1
F1Ss. 1—3, 5—10, 12 repealed by Betting and Gaming Act 1960 (c. 60), Sch.6 Pt. I
Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be any ways construed, deemed, or taken to extend, or in any sort to affect or prejudice any estate or interest in, out of, or to any manors, honours, royalties, lands, tenements, advowsons, presentations, rents, services, and hereditaments whatsoever, which shall or may at any time or times hereafter be, according to the laws now in being, legally allotted to, or held by or by means of any allotment or partition by lots; but that all persons who now are, or that shall hereafter become really and truly seized as part-owners, joint-tenants, and tenants in common, of any manors, honours, royalties, lands, tenements, advowsons, presentations, rents, services, and hereditaments, shall, and he, she, and they, and his, her, and their heirs and assigns is and are hereby made and continued capable to accept and take such estates and interest and parts therein, in such and the like manner and to such and the like uses as he, she, or they might, would, or could have done by or by virtue or in consequence of any lot, scroll, chance, or allotment whatsoever, had this present Act never been made, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
F1Ss. 1—3, 5—10, 12 repealed by Betting and Gaming Act 1960 (c. 60), Sch.6 Pt. I
Gaming Act 1738