Section 294A - Keeping Lottery Office in Indian Penal Code, 1860
Keeping Lottery Office.
1 [294A. Keeping lottery office
Whoever keeps any office or place for the purpose of drawing any lottery 2 [not being 3 [a State lottery] or a lottery authorised by the 4 [State] Government], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
And whoever publishes any proposal to pay any sum, or to deliver any goods, or to do or forbear doing anything for the benefit of any person, on any event or contingency relative or applicable to the drawing of any ticket, lot, number or figure in any such lottery, shall be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.]
STATE AMENDMENTS
5 State of Andhra Pradesh.--In Andhra Pradesh, section 294-A repealed.
6 State of Gujarat.--In Gujarat, section 294-A repealed.
7 State of Karnataka.--In Karnataka area except Bellary District, section 294-A repealed.
8 State of Maharashtra.--In Maharashtra, section 294-A repealed.
9 State of Manipur.-- Section 294A is repealed.
10 State of Uttar Pradesh.--In Uttar Pradesh, section 294-A Omitted.
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1. Inserted by Act 27 of 1870, section 10.
2. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "not authorised by Government".
3. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "a lottery organized by the Central Government or the Government of a Part A State or a Part B State".
4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial".
5. [Vide Andhra Pradesh Act No. 16 of 1968, section 27 (w.e.f. 1-2-1969)].
6. [Vide Bombay Act No. 82 of 1958, section 33 read with Bombay Act 11 of 1960, sec. 87].
7. [Vide Mysore Act No. 27 of 1957, section 33].
8. [Vide Bombay Act No. 82 of 1958, section 33 (w.e.f. 1-5-1959)].
9. [Vide Manipur Act 2 of 1992, sec. 30 (w.e.f. 6-8-1992)].
10. [Vide U.P. Act 24 of 1995, section II].