Betting Act 1953 Explained

Short Title:	Betting Act 1953
Long Title:	An Act to suppress betting houses and betting in public places.
Citation:	Act 495
Territorial Extent:	Throughout Malaysia
Date Enacted:	1953 (Ord. No. 47 of 1953) Revised: 1992 (Act 495 w.e.f. 15 October 1992)
Date Effective:	[Peninsular Malaysia—15 October 1953;<br/>Sabah, Sarawak and Federal Territory of Labuan—15 April 1992, P.U. (B) 164/1992, P.U. (B) 165/1992]
Amended By:	Federal Constitution (Modification of Laws) (Ordinance and Proclamations) Order 1958 [L.N. 332/1958] Banishment Ordinance 1959 [Ord. 11/1959] Betting (Amendment) Act 1961 [Act 8/1961] Betting (Amendment) Act 1989 [Act A741] Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the Federal Territory of Labuan) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 376/1991] Modification of Laws (Common Gaming Houses, Lotteries, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties and Racing) (Totalizator Board) (Extension to the States of Sabah and Sarawak) Order 1991 [P.U. (A) 377/1991]
Related Legislation:	Racing (Totalizator Board) Act 1961 [Act 494]
Status:	In force

The Betting Act 1953 (Malay: Akta Pertaruhan 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)