Section 21Part 0 —
Penalty for conducting or taking part in lottery
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A person who, being the owner or occupier of any house, office, room or place opened, kept or used for either of the said purposes, or any person acting for or on behalf of any such owner or occupier, or any person having the care or management or in any manner assisting in conducting the business thereof, who receives, directly or indirectly, any money or valuable thing as a deposit on condition of paying any sum of money or other valuable thing on the happening of any event or contingency of or relating to any lottery, raffle or game, or pretended game of chance, or as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement, express, implied or understood, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency, and any person giving any acknowledgement, note, security or draft on the receipt of any money or valuable thing so paid or given as aforesaid purporting or intended to entitle the bearer or any other person to receive any money or valuable thing on the happening of any such event or contingency as aforesaid commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for three months, with or without hard labour.