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4. Replacement of section 6 of the principal enactment,
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Section 6 of the principal enactment as amended by
Act No. 2 of 1965 and Law No. 38 of 1974 is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :—
Application of the Code of Criminal
Procedure
Act.
6. (1) Such of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, as are not excluded by subsection (2) or are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act shall apply to proceedings instituted in a court for offences under this Act.
(2)
Section 306 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, shall not apply to proceedings in the Magistrate’s Court for offences under this Act.”.