Consultations and Sweepstakes.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 994, 3 November 1881, Page 4

Consultations and Sweepstakes.

The following are the clauses of the , Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881, which apply to consultations : — No person under any pretence, form, denomination, or description, whatsoever, or by means of any device or contrivance whatsoever, shall sell or dispose of, or agree or promise, whether with or without consideration, to sell or dispose of any real or personal property whatsoever, to or among any person or persons whomsoever, by means of any game of chance, or of any other contrivance or device whatsoever, whereby any such real or personal property shall be sold or disposed of, or divided or allotted to or among any person or persons, by lottery or chance, whether by the throwing or casting of any dice, or the drawing of any tickets, cards, lots, numbers, or figures, or by means of any wheel or otherwise howsoever. Any person who shall establish, commence, or be a partner in any lottery, or in any scheme by which prizes, whether ot money or of any other matter or thing, are gained, drawn for, thrown or competed for, by lot, dice, or any other mode of chance, or who shall sell or dispose of any tickets or other means by which permission or authority is gained or given to any person to throw for, compete, or have any interest in any such lottery or scheme,-and any person who shall manage or conduct, or assist in managing or conducting, any such lottery or scheme, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds, and for and for any second’ offence, beside such penalty, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

Every transaction wherein any money or valuable thing is received as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, expressed or implied to pay or give thereafter to or among any person or persons, by lottery or chance, whether by the throwing or casting of any dice, or the drawing of any tickets, cards, lots, numbers, or figures, or by means of any wheel or otherwise howsoever, any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race, or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as aforesaid, and every scheme of the nature commonly known as a sweepstake shall be deemed to be a lottery within the meaning of this Act, and the provisions of this Act shall apply in respect thereto accordingly.