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Pools Betting and Casino Gaming (Prohibition) Act 1979

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1. POOLS BETTING AND CASINO GAMING (PROHIBITION) ACT

2. (c) takes part directly or otherwise in any pools betting operation or other betting in the nature thereof; or

3. (d) takes part directly or otherwise in any casino gaming or operation or other gaming in the nature thereof; or

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5. The question whether any provision of Chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republ

6. (1)

7. (c) on the basis that the winnings shall, to any extent, be at the discretion of the promoter or some other persons; or

POOLS BETTING AND CASINO GAMING (PROHIBITION) ACT

1979

An Act to prohibit the establishment, lincensing and the combined operation of any pools betting and casino gaming undertaking in Nigeria; and to provide for other matters connected therewith. Commencement. [16th April, 1979]

POOLS BETTING AND CASINO GAMING (PROHIBITION) ACT

1. (1)

As from the operative date of this section and notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment to the contrary, the operation of any pools betting undertaking or participation in pools betting by any person in Nigeria is hereby declared unlawful and, accordingly-

(a) any license issued to any person under or pursuant to any enactment for the operation of any such undertaking shall be deemed to have expired immediately before the operative date of this section; and
(b) no licence shall, as from the aforementioned date, be issued to any person in Nigeria.
(2) Any person who, after the operative date of this section-
(a) operates or causes to be operated any pools betting undertaking in any part of Nigeria; or
(b) gives or sells or offers for sale or delivers any pools betting coupons or imports any pools betting coupons (whether or not for or in connection with any of the foregoing purposes) or pays or receives indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event or contingency connected with, any pools betting operation; or
(c) takes part directly or otherwise in any pools betting operation or other betting in the nature thereof; or
(d) writes, prints, publishes, distributes or imports any pools betting document or other document in the nature thereof; or
(e) advances, furnishes or receives money for the purpose of pools betting, shall be guilty of an offence under this section.

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