South Australian Consolidated Acts

LOTTERY AND GAMING ACT 1936 - SECT 89

89—Evidence of house being a gaming-house

If—

            (a)         any member of the police force or other person acting in his assistance authorised under this Act to enter any house, room, office or place is wilfully prevented from or is obstructed or delayed in entering the same or any part thereof; or

            (b)         any external or internal door of or means of access to any such house, office, room, or place so authorised to be entered is found to be fitted or provided with any bolt, bar, chain, or any means or contrivance for the purpose of preventing, delaying, or obstructing the entry into the same or any part thereof of any member of the police force authorised as aforesaid, or any person acting in his assistance, or for the purpose of giving an alarm in case of such entry; or

            (c)         any such house, office, room, or place is found fitted or provided with any means or contrivance for unlawful gaming, or with any means or contrivance for concealing, removing, or destroying any instruments of gaming,

it shall be evidence, until the contrary is made to appear, that such house, office, room, or place, is used as a common gaming-house, and that the persons found therein were playing an unlawful game therein.