Gaming Act 1802
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1802 c. 119 |
| Year | 1802 |
(42 Geo. 3) C A P. CXIX.
'WHEREAS evil disposed Persons do frequently resort to Publick Houses and other Places, to set up certain mischievous Games or Lotteries, calledLittle Goes , and to induce Servants, Children, and unwary Persons, to play at the said Games; and thereby most fraudently obtain great Sums of Money from Servants, Children, and unwary Persons, to the great Impoverishment and utter Ruin of many Families;' for Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all such Games or Lotteries, calledLittle Goes , shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be deemed and are hereby declared common and publick Nuisances, and against Law.
II Persons keeping any Office or Place for any Game or Lottery not authorized by Law, &c. shall forfeit 500 l. and be deemed Rogues and Vagabonds within the Meaning of 17 G. 2. c. 5.
II. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the first Day ofJuly One thousand eight hundred and two, no Person or Persons whatsoever shall publickly or privately keep any Office or Place to exercise, keep open, shew, or expose to be played, drawn, or thrown at or in, either by Dice, Lots, Cards, Balls, or by Numbers or Figures, or by any other Way, Contrivance, or Device whatsoever, any Game or Lottery called a Little Goe , or any other Lottery whatsoever not authorized by Parliament, or shall knowingly suffer to be exercised, kept open, shewn, or exposed to be played, drawn, or thrown at or in, either by Dice, Lots, Cards, Balls, or by Numbers or Figures, or by any other Way, Contrivance, or Device whatsoever, any such Game or Lottery, in his or her House, Room, or Place, upon Pain of forfeiting, for every such Offence, the Sum of five hundred Pounds, to be recovered in the Court of Exchequer, at the Suit of his Majesty's Attorney General, and to be to the Use of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; and every Person so offending shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond within the true Intent and Meaning of an Act, passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction , and shall be punishable as such Rogue and Vagabond accordingly.
III Offenders not proceed against for Penalty, shall be punishable as Rogues and Vagabonds under 17 G. 2. c. 5. and 27 G. 3. c. 1. [And see post. ∥ 7.]
III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That every Person so offending against this Act in Manner herein-before mentioned, against whom no Information shall have been made as aforesaid, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of an Act, passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty KingGeorge the second, intituled, An Act to amend and make more...
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