{"act":{"id":"andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974","short_title":"The Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"27","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Andhra Pradesh","unit":"section","section_count":13,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"8","heading":null,"text":"Instruments of gaming, etc., found in a common gaming house may be ordered to destroyed or forfeited on conviction -On conviction of any person for opening, keeping or using or permitting the use of a common gaming house, or gaming therein, or being present for the purpose of gaming, the convicting magistrate, - (i) may order all the instruments of gaming found therein or on or about the person found therein, to be forthwith destroyed or forfeited; and (ii) may order - (a) all or any of the securities for money and other articles seized, not being instruments of gaming, to be sold and the proceeds thereof with all moneys seized to be forfeited; or (b) any part of such proceeds, and other moneys to be paid to any person appearing to be entitled thereto.","html":"<p>Instruments of gaming, etc., found in a common gaming house may be ordered to destroyed or forfeited on conviction -On conviction of any person for opening, keeping or using or permitting the use of a common gaming house, or gaming therein, or being present for the purpose of gaming, the convicting magistrate, - (i) may order all the instruments of gaming found therein or on or about the person found therein, to be forthwith destroyed or forfeited; and (ii) may order - (a) all or any of the securities for money and other articles seized, not being instruments of gaming, to be sold and the proceeds thereof with all moneys seized to be forfeited; or (b) any part of such proceeds, and other moneys to be paid to any person appearing to be entitled thereto.</p>","words":135,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/8/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/031eb2f2-f859-4331-bc3c-5837b07ae6cd/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}