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BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892

BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - LONG TITLE

An Act to render Penal the inciting Infants to Betting or Wagering
or to borrowing Money.
[29th March 1892]
Persons sending documents to an infant inciting to betting guilty of
a misdemeanour.

BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - SECT 1

1.(1) If anyone, for the purpose of earning commission, reward, or
other profit, sends or causes to be sent to a person whom he
knows to be an infant any circular, notice, advertisement, letter,
telegram, or other document which invites or may reasonably be
implied to invite the person receiving it to make any bet or
wager, or to enter into or take any share or interest in any
betting or wagering transaction, or to apply to any person or at
any place, with a view to obtaining information or advice for the
purpose of any bet or wager, or for information as to any race,
fight, game, sport, or other contingency upon which betting or
wagering is generally carried on, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be liable, if convicted on indictment, to
imprisonment, ... for a term not exceeding three months, or to a
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both imprisonment and
fine, and if convicted on summary conviction, to imprisonment, ...
for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine not exceeding
twenty pounds, or to both imprisonment and fine.

(2) If any such circular, notice, advertisement, letter, telegram, or
other document as in this section mentioned, names or refers to
anyone as a person to whom any payment may be made, or from whom
information may be obtained, for the purpose of or in relation to
betting or wagering, the person so named or referred to shall be
deemed to have sent or caused to be sent such document as
aforesaid, unless he proves that he had not consented to be so
named, and that he was not in any way a party to, and was wholly
ignorant of, the sending of such document.

Ss.24 rep. by 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); 1974 c.39 s.192 sch.5 Pt.I

BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - SECT 5
Avoiding contract for payment of loan advanced during infancy.

5. If any infant, who has contracted a loan which is void in law,
agrees after he comes of age to pay any money which in whole or
in part represents or is agreed to be paid in respect of any such
loan, and is not a new advance, such agreement, and any instrument,
negotiable or other, given in pursuance of or for carrying into
effect such agreement, or otherwise in relation to the payment of
money representing or in respect of such loan, shall, so far as it
relates to money which represents or is payable in respect of such
loan, and is not a new advance, be void absolutely as against all
persons whomsoever.

For the purposes of this section any interest, commission, or other
payment in respect of such loan shall be deemed to be a part of
such loan.

BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - SECT 6
Person charged a competent witness.

6. In any proceeding against any person for an offence under this
Act such person and his wife or husband, as the case may be, may,
if such person thinks fit, be called, sworn, examined, and
cross-examined as an ordinary witness in the case.

BETTING AND LOANS (INFANTS) ACT 1892 - SECT 8
Short title.

8. This Act may be cited as the Betting and Loans (Infants) Act,
1892.