Pools Betting and Casino Gaming (Prohibition) Act, 1979 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Pools Betting and Casino Gaming (Prohibition) Act, 1979

Commenced on 16 April 1979
[This is the version of this document from 16 April 1979.]
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1. Prohibition of goods betting

(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 se…

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