Act of Parliament · As enacted
Increase of Fines Act 2005
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s 1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Increase of Fines Act,
No. 12 of 2005.
For the purpose of increasing fines imposed under certain laws—
the laws set out in Column I of the First Schedule to this Act, are hereby amended in the manner set out in the corresponding entry in Column II of that
Schedule ; and
the laws set out in Column I of the Second Schedule to this Act, are hereby amended by the substitution for the words set out in Column II of that Schedule wherever those words may appear in any such law, of the words set out in the corresponding entry in
Column III.
The amendments made to section 153, 156 and 166
set out in the Second Schedule to the Motor Traffic Act
(Chapter 203) as last amended by Act, No. 40 of 1984, by paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section and referred to in the First Schedule to this Act, shall come into force on
January 01, 2006.
s 3Magistrate’s Court to have jurisdiction notwithstanding section 11 and 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in sections 11 and 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act,
No. 15 of 1979, the Magistrate’s Court shall have jurisdiction to try offences committed under any of the sections set out in the First Schedule and any of the sections which contains the words set out in the Second Schedule to this Act, and to impose the fine as provided for therein for such offences.
Column I
Column II
Title of the Law
Amendments
Sinhala text to prevail in the event of inconsistency.
1. In section 14, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees”, of the words “to a fine not less than twenty-five thousand rupees and not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”.
2. In subsection (1) of section 27, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees”, of the words “to a fine not less than two thousand rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees”.
s 3
In subsection (2) of section 27A, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees”, of the words “to a fine not less than fifty thousand rupees and not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees”.
1. In subsection (1) of section 15, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees”, of the words “to a fine not less than fifty thousand rupees and not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand rupees”.
2. In section 15A, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees”, of the words “to a fine
Adoption of
Children’s
Ordinance(Cap.61), as amended by Act,
No. 15 of 1992.
Antiquities
Ordinance (Chapter 188), as last amended by Act,
No. 24 of 1998.
s 4
For the aviodance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the provisions of section 2 of this Act shall not apply in respect of an offence committed under any section referred to on the First Schedule or under any law referred to in the
Second Schedule to this Act, where such offence was committed prior to the coming into operation of this Act.
s 5
In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.