DPP v Flanagan

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1980
Date01 January 1980
Docket Number[1978 No. 39 S.S.]
CourtSupreme Court
(S.C.)
Director of Public Prosecutions
and
Flanagan

Whether operation and promotion of a slot machine comes within definition of unlawful gaming - Within s. 4 (1) (c) of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1956 - Effect of repeal of s. 10 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 - Statute - Interpretation - Repeal -Whether repeal of one section affected other sections - Whether repeal created criminal offence by implication - Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1956 (No. 2), ss. 4, 10 - Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1970 (No. 6), s. 1.

Section 10 of the Act of 1956 provided that no person should operate any slot-machine of the type there described, and s. 4. sub-s. 1 (c), of the same Act provided that no person should promote, assist in promoting, or provide facilities for any kind of gaming by means of any slot-machine...

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