SHILLONG: The Assembly on Thursday passed the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the sale of teer tickets Bill, 2018 to regulate the game of arrow shooting and the sale of teer tickets.
As per the Act, any authorized officer may enter any place where the game of arrow shooting is conducted or organized including any place of the bookmaker where the sale of tickets is conducted and acceptance of stake money takes place.
The Act states, “If any person prevents or obstructs the entry of any officer so authorized, he shall, in addition to any action which he is liable under any law for the time being in force, be liable on conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding rupees fifty thousand only.”
Some of the terms and conditions of a license or permit for arrow shooting under Section 6 and Section 7 of the Act are that the places, day or days and time of shooting including distance from places of worship and educational institutions should be as provided in the rules.
The number of arrows should not be less than thirty and more than fifty and that the total number of arrow used in each round of shooting should be between seven hundred to two thousand in numbers.
The target will be of the type usually used in archery among the Khasis or Jaintias as the case may be. The size of the target should be between 61 cm to 102 cm in height and 66 cm to 127 cm in circumference.
The distance of the target from the shooters will be not be less than 15.21 meters and more than 30.48 meters and the time within which all the shooters should complete one round of shooting should not exceed five minutes.
Further, the Act states that the results of the shooting should be declared at the place of shooting with half an hour from the time the shooting ended.
The shooting should be free and fair and for this purpose and for orderly functioning of the game, the organizers should keep and maintain proper co-ordination with the bookmakers and the shooters under the supervision of the officers duly authorized by the state government .
There are separate terms and conditions of license for bookmaker.
