163. Betting houses. (1) Any house, room or place which is used for any of the following purposes— (a) for the purpose of bets being made in it between persons resorting to the place and— (i) the owner, occupier or keeper of the place, or any person using the place; (ii) any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of any such owner, occupier or keeper, or person using the place; or any person having the care or management, or in any manner conducting the business, of the place; or (b) for the purpose of any money or other property being paid or received there by or on behalf of any such owner, occupier or keeper, or person using the place, as, or for the consideration— (i) for an assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or other property on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport or exercise; or (ii) for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or other property on any such event or contingency, is called a common betting house. (2) Any person who, being the owner or occupier of any house, room or place, knowingly and wilfully permits it to be opened, kept or used as a common betting house by another person or who has the use or management, or assists in conducting the business, of a common betting house, commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year. (3) Nothing in this section shall render illegal the use of a totalisator on any occasion approved by the Inspector General of Police. (4) For the purpose of subsection (3), “totalisator” means and includes the instrument, machine or contrivance commonly known as the totalisator, and any other instrument, machine or contrivance of a like nature, or any scheme for enabling any number of persons to make bets with one another on the like principles.