Betting Act, 1853

BETTING ACT 1853

C A P. CXIX.

An Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses. [20th August 1853.]

Whereas a kind of Gaming has of late sprung up tending to the Injury and Demoralization of improvident Persons by the opening of Places called Betting Houses or Offices, and the receiving of Money in advance by the Owners or Occupiers of such Houses or Offices, or by other Persons acting on their Behalf, on their Promises to pay Money on Events of Horse Races and the like Contingencies:’ For the Suppression thereof, be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: