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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 Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | |
[19th October , 1995 ] |
Short title | 1. This Act may be cited as the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 1995. | Amendment of section 303 or 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 " a term not exceeding two years for an offence may order ", of the words" a term not exceeding two years, for an offence may except in any case where the sentence of imprisonment imposed is a mandatory sentence of imprisonment order" | Amendment of the First Schedule to the principal enactments. | 3. The First Schedule to the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:- | Sinhala text to prevail in case of Inconsistency. | 4. In case of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, The Sinhala text shall prevail. | Schedules |
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