(1)No person shall take part in gaming to which this Part of this Act applies—
(a)in any street, or
(b)(subject to the next following section) in any other place to which, whether on payment or otherwise, the public have access.
(2)A constable may arrest without warrant anyone whom he finds in a street, or in any such place as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of the preceding subsection, and whom he suspects, with reasonable cause, to be taking part in gaming there in contravention of that subsection.
(3)For the purposes of this section—
(a)" street" includes any bridge, road, lane, footway, subway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, which is for the time being open to the public, and, in the application of this section to Scotland, includes also any common close or common stair; and
(b)the doorways and entrances of premises abutting upon, and any ground adjoining and open to, a street shall be treated as forming part of the street.