Malaysia legislation
Section 4
Section 4
(a)
being the owner or occupier or having the use temporarily or otherwise thereof keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house; or
(b)
permits a place of which he is owner or occupier or of which he has the use temporarily or otherwise to be kept or used by another person as a common gaming house;
(c)
has the care or management of or in any manner assists in the management of a place kept or used as a common gaming; or
(d)
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(Deleted by Act A755);
(g)
announces or publishes or causes to be announced or published either orally or by means of any print, writing, design, sign, or otherwise that any place is opened, kept, or used as a common gaming house or in any other manner invites or solicits any person to commit a breach of section 6 or section 9; or
(h)
conducts in or through any newspaper or any other periodical publication, or in connection with any trade or business or the sale of any article to the public—
(i)
any competition in which prizes are offered for forecasts of the result either of a future event or of a past event the result of which is not yet ascertained or not yet generally known; or
(ii)
any other competition success in which does not depend to a substantial degree upon the exercise of skill, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to
*a fine of not less than five thousand ringgit and not more than fifty thousand ringgit and shall also be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and in addition shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand ringgit and not more than fifty thousand ringgit for every gaming machine seized.
*NOTE—Previously “Imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to both”–see the Common Gaming Houses (Amendment) Act 1990
(2)
Any person who occupies or has the use temporarily of a place which is kept or used by another person as a common gaming house shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have permitted such place to be so kept or used.
Assisting in carrying on a public lottery, etc.