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(4) Any person other than a person mentioned in subsection (1) who is found in a common gaming house shall be deemed, unless the contrary is proved, to be there for the purpose of unlawful gaming and is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred shillings for the first offence, and for each subsequent offence to a fine of four hundred shillings or imprisonment for three months or to both that fine and imprisonment. 172. Betting houses (1) Any house, room or place is called a common betting house if it is used for any of the following purposes, that is to say– (a) for the purpose of bets being made therein between person resorting to the place and– (i) the owner, occupier or keeper of the place, or any person using the place; (ii) any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of any such owner, occupier or keeper, or person using the place; or (iii) any person having the care or management, or in any manner conducting the business, of the place; (b) for the purpose of any money or other property being paid or received therein by or on behalf of the owner, occupier or keeper, or person using the place, as or for consideration– (i) for an assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or other property on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport or exercise; or (ii) for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or other property on any such event or contingency. (2) Any person who, being the owner or occupier of any house, room or place, knowingly and wilfully permits it to be opened, kept or used as a common betting house by another person, or who has the use or management, or assists in conducting the business, of a common betting house, is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for one year: Provided that it shall not be an offence to use a totalisator by a race club, gymkhana club or sports club recognised by the Government at any public meeting, with the approval in each case of the Inspector-General of Police and; in this proviso, "totalisator" means the instrument, machine or contrivance, commonly known as the totalisator and any other instrument, machine or contrivance of a like nature, or any scheme for enabling any number of persons to make bets with one another on the like principles. 173. Repealed [Repealed by Act No. 23 of 1967 s. 25.]
173A. Repealed [Repealed by R.L. Cap. 440 s. 16.] 173B. Chain letters (1) Any person who sends or causes to be sent any chain letter or who sends or receives any money or money's worth in connection with any chain letter is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine of four thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both the fine and imprisonment. (2) For the purposes of this section "chain letter" means a document addressed by one person to another suggesting to him– (a) that he should send a document having the same purport to a number of other persons; and (b) that he should remit to a person or to an address specified in the first-mentioned document money or money's worth. 174. Keeper of premises defined Any person who appears, acts or behaves as master or mistress, or as the person having the care or management of the house, room, set of rooms or place is mentioned in sections 171 and 172 is to be taken to be the keeper, whether he is or is not the real keeper. 175. Traffic in obscene publications (1) Any person who– (a) for the purpose of or by way of trade or for the purpose of distribution or public exhibition, makes, produces or has in his possession any obscene writing drawing, print, painting printed matter, picture, poster, emblem, photograph, cinematograph film or any other obscene object or other object tending to corrupt morals; (b) for any of the purposes referred to in paragraph (a) imports, conveys or exports, or causes to be imported, conveyed or exported any such matters or things, or in any manner whatsoever puts any of them in circulation; (c) carries on or takes part in any business, whether public or private, concerned with any such matters or things, or deals in any such matters or things in any manner whatsoever, or distributes any of them, or exhibits any of them publicly, or makes a business of lending any of them; (d) advertises or makes known by any means whatsoever with a view to assisting the circulation of, or traffic in, any such matters or things, that a person is engaged in any of the acts referred to in this section, or advertises or makes known how, or from
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