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3. Amendment of section 49 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Section 49 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after subsection (2A)

thereof, of the following new subsection:—

“(2AA) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of section 28A of this

Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not less than fifty thousand rupees.”.