2. Amendment of section 14 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act,

No. 15 of 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the “ principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :—

(a)

by the repeal of paragraph (c) of that section; and

(b)

in paragraph (d) of that section by the substitution for the words “any two of the sentences” of the words “any of the sentences”.