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Licensing of Clubs (Amendment) Act 1980

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s 1

This Act may be cited as the Licensing of Clubs

Short title.

(Amendment) Act, No, 14 of 1980.

s 23

Section 2 of the Licensing of Clubs Law, No. 17 of

Amendment 1975 (hereinafter referred to as the “ principal enactment ”)

of section 2 1"

is hereby amended as follows :—

of 1975.

(1)

by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection :—

“ (1a) Notwithstanding anything in subsection

At RS eh

(1)

, no club formed on or after the specified date shall be maintained within the administrative limits of any. local authority except under the authority of a licence issued by the Chairman of such local authority.

In this subsection, “specified date” means such

‘date as may be. specified by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection by Order published in the Gazette.” ; and

(2)

by the substitution, in subsection (3) of that section, for the words “maintained in contravention of subsection (1) ”, of the words “maintained in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1)

or subsection (1a) ”.

8 Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby

Amendment

”

amended by the substitution, for the proviso to that section, of gection 4

of the following proviso :—

principal enactment.

“ Provided, however, that the fees so prescribed shall

not exceed the following limits :—

Rs.

(a)

in the case of the Colombo Municipal

Council

5,000

(b)

in the case of any other Municipal Council 5,000

(c)

in the case of any Urban Council

1,500

(d)

in the case of uny Town Council or Village gad $76u5- 10,008 (80/03)

Amendment 2

Licensing of Clubs (Amendment)

Act,.No. 14 of 1980

Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for the words “two weeks”, of the words “four weeks”.

of section 7 of the principal enactment,

s 5Replacement of section 24 of the principal enactment

Section 24 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor

:—

a Ofiences

24. (1) Every person who commits an penalties.

offence under this Law or under any regula-tion made thereunder shall, on conviction after trial before a Magistrate, be liable, notwithstanding the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No..15 of 1979 or any other law, to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(2)

Where a fine imposed under this Law is recovered the court may direct that such fine or such part of the fine as is equivalent to the fees payable to the local authority as is prescribed by the Minister under section 4 of this Law, be paid to the fund of the local authority within the administrative limits of which the club in relation to which the offence was committed is situate. ”.

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