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Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka · 2023 Revised Edition · Chapter XV · The Judiciary

111C. Interference with judiciary an offence

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104[](1) Every judge, presiding officer, public officer or other person entrusted by law with judicial powers or functions or with functions under this Chapter or with similar functions under any law enacted by Parliament shall exercise and perform such powers and functions without being subject to any direction or other interference proceeding from any other person except a superior court, tribunal, institution or other person entitled under law to direct or supervise such judge, presiding officer, public officer or such other person in the exercise or performance of such powers or functions.

(2)

Every person who, without legal authority, interferes or attempts to interfere with the exercise or performance of the judicial powers or functions of any judge, presiding officer, public officer or such other person as is referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, shall be guilty of an offence punishable by the High

Court on conviction after trial without a jury with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to a period of one year or with fine or with both such imprisonment and fine and may, in addition, be disqualified for a period not exceeding seven years from the date of such conviction from being an elector and from voting at a Referendum or at any election of the President of the Republic or at any election of a

Member of Parliament or any local authority or from holding any public office and from being employed as a public officer.

103 - Inserted by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 14.

104 - Article 116 renumbered as article 111C by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 15.

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