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1The Public Gambling Act, 1867

( ACT NO. II OF 1867 )

Gaming and setting birds and animals to fight in public streets
11. A police officer may apprehend without warrant any person found gaming in any public market, fair, street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid,
 
 
or any person setting any birds or animals to fight in any public market, fair, street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid,
 
 
or any person there present aiding and abetting such public fighting of birds and animals.
 
 
Such person, when apprehended, shall be brought without delay before a Magistrate, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty taka, or to imprisonment, either simple or rigorous, for any term not exceeding one calendar month,
 
 
and such police officer may seize all birds and animals and instruments of gaming found in such public place or on the person of those whom he shall so arrest, and the Magistrate may, on conviction of the offender, order such instruments to be forthwith destroyed, and such birds and animals to be sold.

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    Throughout this Act, except otherwise provided, the words “Bangladesh”, “Government” and “Taka” were substituted, for the words “East Pakistan”, “Provincial Government” and “rupees” respectively by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
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