Pool Betting Control Act, 1961 🇳🇬

Nigeria

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Pool Betting Control Act, 1961

  • Published in Official Gazette supplement 100 on 28 December 1961
  • Assented to on 26 December 1961
  • Commenced on 28 December 1961
  • [This is the version of this document from 28 December 1961.]
AN ACT TO MAKE BETTER PROVISION FOR THE CONTROL OF THE BUSINESS OP POOL BETTING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES CONNECTED THEREWITHBE IT ENACTED by the Legislature of the Federation of Nigeria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. Short title, etc.

This Act may be cited as the Pool Betting Control Act, 1961, and shall apply to the Federal Territory.

2. Interpretation.

In this Act,—"pool betting business" means any business involving the receiving or negotiating of bets made by way of pool betting and includes—
(a)business involving the receiving or negotiating of such bets on behalf of any person, whether in any case the person od whose . behalf the bet is received or negotiated is inside or outside the Federal Territory, and
(b)where as a …

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