Section 1: Prohibition of goods betting.

(1)
As from the operative date of this section and notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment to the contrary, the operation of any pools betting undertaking or participation in pools betting by any person in Nigeria is hereby declared unlawful and, accordingly-
(a) any license issued to any person under or pursuant to any enactment for the operation of any such undertaking shall be deemed to have expired immediately before the operative date of this section; and
(b) no licence shall, as from the aforementioned date, be issued to any person in Nigeria.
(2) Any person who, after the operative date of this section-
(a) operates or causes to be operated any pools betting undertaking in any part of Nigeria; or
(b) gives or sells or offers for sale or delivers any pools betting coupons or imports any pools betting coupons (whether or not for or in connection with any of the foregoing purposes) or pays or receives indirectly any money or money's worth for or in respect of any chance in, or event or contingency connected with, any pools betting operation; or
(c) takes part directly or otherwise in any pools betting operation or other betting in the nature thereof; or
(d) writes, prints, publishes, distributes or imports any pools betting document or other document in the nature thereof; or
(e) advances, furnishes or receives money for the purpose of pools betting,
shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(3) Any person found guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction-
(a)
in the case of an individual, to a fine of N200 or imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and imprisonment; and
(b) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine of not less than N5,000; and in addition every written, printed, published or imported matter and the proceeds of the pools betting operation concerned shall be forfeited to the state.
(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 16th April 1979 and references herein to the operative date of this section shall be constructed accordingly.