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| Code Of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT, No. 15 OF 1979 | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows;- | |
| [12th August , 1997 ] |
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| 1. This Act may be cited as the Code of Criminal procedure (Amendment) Act, No. 19 of 1997. | Amendment of section 303 of Act No. 15 of 1979.
| 2. Section 303 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the " principal enactment ") is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words " is a mandatory sentence of imprisonment, ", of the words " is a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment, ". | Amendment of First Schedule to the principal enactment.
| 3. The First Schedule to the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :- | (1) by the omission, from Column 8 of that Schedule of the words " Magistrate's Court " appearing in the entries in that Column, corresponding to the entries in Column 1 of that Schedule, relating respectively, to sections 286A, 308A, 360A, 360B, 360C, 364, 364A and 365B ; | | (2) by the repeal of all the entries relating to section 365 and the substitution therefor of the following entries :- | | " 365 Unnatural same imprisonment Magistrate offences of either description up to ten years and fine Court" | | If the offence same Rigorous Imprisonment is committed by a person over eighteen years of age for not less than ten years and not in respect of a exceeding person under and twenty years and fine compensation. sixteen years of age. | | (3) by the repeal of all the entries relating to section 365A and the substitution therefor of the following entries ;- | | "365A Act of same Imprisonment Magistrate's gross idecency of either description up to by one person with another two years or with fine or with both Court" | | If the offence same Rigorous Imprisonment is committed by a person over eighteen years of age for not less than ten years and not in respect of a exceeding person under and twenty years and fine compensation. sixteen years of age. | | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
| 4. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. | Schedules |
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