(1) This Act may be called the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970.
2 "(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Meghalaya".
3 "(3) It shall come into force at once".
2 "(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Meghalaya".
3 "(3) It shall come into force at once".
Source footnotes
1 Inserted in the marginal note after word title a comma (,) followed by the word extent of the Meghalaya Act 12 of 1972.2 Re-numbered from sub-section (2) to sub-section (3) of Meghalaya Act 2 of 1972.
3 Substituted by section 2(ii) of Meghalaya Act of 1972.
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Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Penalty for owning, keeping or having charge of a common gaming house.Section 4 · Penalty for assisting gambling.Section 5 · Penalty for being found in common gaming house.Section 6 · Power of Police Officer to enter and search.Section 7 · Finding instruments of gaming in suspected houses to be evidence that they are common gaming houses.Section 8 · Penalty for giving for stakes unnecessarySection 9 · Destruction of instruments of gaming and payment of reward to informers.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 13 Oct 2026. Source metadata reports last modification: 2022-04-22. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.