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being the owner or occupier or having temporary use or otherwise thereof, keeps or uses a place as a common gaming house;

permits a place of which he is owner or occupier or of which he has temporary use or otherwise, to be kept or used by another person as a common gaming house;

has the care or management of, or in any manner assists in the management of, a place kept or used as a common gaming house, or assists in carrying on a public lottery;

receives directly or indirectly any money or money’s worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event or contingency connected with, a public lottery, or sells or offers for sale or gives or delivers any lottery ticket;

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draws, throws, declares or exhibits expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number ticket, lot, figure, design, symbol or other result of any public lottery;

writes, prints or publishes, or causes to be written, printed or published, any lottery ticket or list of prizes or any announcement of the result of a public lottery or any announcement or riddle relating to a public lottery;

announces, 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 9; or

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 —

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