Assam Game and Betting Act, 1970
An Act to extend the Public Gambling Act, 1867 to the whole of the State of Assam Preamble. - Whereas gambling and betting on games and sports have widely spread throughout the State causing debasement of public morality and wide-spread exploitation and threat to peace and order ; It has, therefore, become expedient to extend the Public Gambling Act, 1867 (Central Act 3 of 1867) to the whole of the State of Assam to prohibit betting on games in the manner hereinafter appearing ; It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows :
- Act number
- Act 18 of 1970
- Year
- 1970
- Enacted on
- 19-12-1970
- In force from
- 19 December 1970
- Jurisdiction
- Assam State Act
- Subjects
- Criminal Law
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Official source: India Code