The Betting Act 1953 (), is a Malaysian law enacted to suppress betting houses and betting in public places.
Structure The Betting Act 1953, in its current form (1 January 2006), consists of 22 sections and no schedule (including 6 amendments), without separate parts. Section 1: Short title Section 2: Interpretation Section 3: Nuisance Section 4: Offences relating to common betting houses and betting information centres Section 5: Advancing money for conducting Section 6: Betting in a common betting house, and book-making Section 6A: Penalty for publication or announcement of result of a horse race Section 7: Money paid recoverable Section 8: Presumption against person accepting or receiving stakes, etc. Section 9: Presumption against house and occupier Section 9A: Presumptions against betting information centre and occupier Section 10: Presumption against house, occupier, and owner Section 11: Order for demolition of structural contrivances for facilitating betting Section 12: Search warrant against premises Section 13: Search warrant against persons Section 13A: Arrest and search upon suspicion Section 14: Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or Senior Police Officer may search Section 14A: Evidence by police officer to be presumptive evidence Section 15: Protection of informers from discovery Section 16: Examination of offenders Section 17: Binding over on second conviction Section 18: Trial Section 19: Stakes Section 20: Exemption from Act Section 21: Reward to informer Section 22: (Omitted)
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External links Betting Act 1953