ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act
55. Gaming in public place an offence
Edition: 2025-06-20 · Repealed
55. Gaming in public place an offence
(1)Subject to this Act, a person who takes part in gaming in a street or other place to which, whether on payment or otherwise, the public have or may have access, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.(2)A police officer may arrest without warrant anyone whom he finds in a street or other place referred to in subsection (1) and whom he suspects, with reasonable cause, to be committing an offence under this section.(3)In this section, "street" has the meaning assigned to it in section 29(3).