Gaming Offences in UK Law

  • Recent Book: Licensing Practice and Procedure
    • No. 57-4, October 1984
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... make applications under the Licensing Act 1964,the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, or the Gaming Act 1968. Yet it is ... two sections dealing with general licensing hours and offences which might be committed in licensed premises. As an unusual but ......
  • Book Review: Paul's Police Offences
    • No. 17-4, December 1984
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    ......Thus sections deal with summary offences; protection of animals;vagrancy; lotteries, gaming and betting, and police offences. Asection on penaltiesand sentences, plus an introduction which covers such mattersasthe history oflegislation ......
  • The Gaming Act, 1968, Takes Hold
    • No. 43-10, October 1970
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    Sir Ranulph Bacon's police career was extremely distinguished. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1928 and was selected for the Metropolitan Police College, where he won the Baton of Honour in 19...
    ...... Previous convictions for gaming offences are dismissed by drawing a comparison with bookmakers who obtained licences for betting-shops after past convictions for street ......
  • Criminal Legislation in 1960
    • No. 34-1, January 1961
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... 14 and 15 of the Sexual Offences Act, 1956. Now it is an offence (with a maximum sentence of two ...BETTING AND GAMING ACT, 1960 The main provisions of this Act, which is based on ......
  • Destruction of Gaming Machines
    • No. 27-2, April 1954
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... Royal Commission would, from their deliberations, evolve a solution to the difficulties which face the Police when dealing with offences under the Gaming Acts; but all we have had so far is their recommendation under paragraph 435(7) that coin-actuated machines which ......
  • The Licensing Act, 1961: 2
    • No. 35-1, January 1962
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    In this article, Chief Inspector Jempson deals with the remainder of Part II and Part III of the Act. Part I and the remainder of Part II were dealt with at p. 419 of last year's volume.
    ......104, L.A. 1953 as amended), licences for billiards (Gaming Act, 1845), music, dancing, theatre and cinematograph (Public ... registered in respect of other club premises) the two offences of supplying and obtaining under s. 25 (3) (below) shall not ......
  • Parliamentary Bills
    • No. 26-3, July 1962
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ...... the Hire Purchase, Air Guns & Shot Guns, etc., Lotteries and Gaming and Sexual Offences Bills have all made insufficient progress to ......
  • Drinking, Betting and Gaming
    • No. 21-2, April 1948
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... Police I F any doubt existed in the minds of Police officers, of whatever rank, as to whether or not participation in offences should be resorted to in order that persons who commit offences may be brought to justice, that doubt must either have been ......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • No. 4-3, July 1931
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... RECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONS GAMING ANOTHER recent decision of interest on this subject was given in ...The offences were committed by means of machines known as the' Little ......
  • ‘The police are rottenly corrupt’: Policing, scandal, and the regulation of illegal betting in Depression-era Sydney
    • No. 48-4, December 2015
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    One groundbreaking aspect of the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption in New South Wales was to recognize the importance of the historical dimension of corruption. The historical consensus ...
    ......There had been 1034 prosecutions for betting offences in Sydney and Newcastle alone in the September quarter of 1933 ( Sun , 23 ... and Britain, and on his return had reorganized the policing of gaming offences (Swanton & Hoban, 1990). Each police command area, of which ......
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