Section 6: Interpretation.

(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"casino" means any building or part thereof to which members of the public or members of a club or other association have access for the purpose of taking part directly or otherwise in any casino gaming;
"casino gaming" includes gaming, wagering, betting, or other, Black Jack, Baccarat, Chemin-de-Fer and such similar activities as are normally associated with a casino;
"enactment" means an Act, Law, Decree or Edit and includes any subsidiary legislation made thereunder;
"pools betting" means bets made by a number of persons-
(a) on terms that the winning of such persons as are winners shall be, or be a share of, or be determined by reference to , the stake money paid or agreed to be paid by those persons whether the bets are made by filling up and returning coupons or other written or printed forms or otherwise howsoever; or
(b) on terms that the winnings of such of those persons as are winners shall be, or shall include, an amount (not determined by reference to the stake money paid or agreed to be paid by those persons) which is divisible in any proportions among such of them as are winners; or
(c) on the basis that the winnings shall, to any extent, be at the discretion of the promoter or some other persons; or
(d) on the basis of what is commonly known or referred to as fixed odds;
"the state" means any State in Nigeria in which a conviction for an offence under this Act is obtained.
(2) The reference in subsection (1) of this section to "fixed odds" is reference to pools betting such that only, and only if, each of the persons making a bet knows or can know at the time he makes it, the amount he will win, except in so far as that amount is to depend on the result of the events on which the bet is made, or any such event taking place or producing a result, or on the numbers taking part in any such events, or on there being odds on any such event, or on the time when his bet is received by any person with or through whom the bet is made.