3. Magistrate’s Court to have jurisdiction notwithstanding section 11 and 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act…

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.

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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”.