Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Keeping gaming or betting house

• 201 (1) Every person who keeps a common gaming house or common betting house is guilty of

  • (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or

  • (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.

• 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.