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Criminal Code

Version of section 201 from 2003-01-01 to 2019-09-18:


Marginal note:Keeping gaming or betting house

  •  (1) Every one who keeps a common gaming house or common betting house is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

  • Marginal note:Person found in or owner permitting use

    (2) Every one who

    • (a) is found, without lawful excuse, in a common gaming house or common betting house, or

    • (b) as owner, landlord, lessor, tenant, occupier or agent, knowingly permits a place to be let or used for the purposes of a common gaming house or common betting house,

    is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 185

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