Betting Act 1953 s 18

s 18 Trial

(1) All offences against this Act shall be tried summarily by a Magistrate. (2) In any prosecution under this Act, the court may refer, for the purposes of evidence, to the book “Gambling Games in Malaya” by C. T. Dobree and to any other published books or articles on the subject of unlawful gambling which the court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate. (3) Any punishment authorized by this Act may be imposed by a Magistrate’s Court, notwithstanding that the same be in excess of the punishment which such court is ordinarily empowered to impose.

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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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