Excise (Amendment) Act 1990

This Act may be cited as the Excise (Amendment) Act, .

No. 37 of 1999.

9.

Amendment f1) section 32 of Chapter 52

Section 32 of the Excise Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as “ the principal enactment ”) is hereby amended as follows :-—

in paragraph (p) of subsection (2) of that section by the substitution for the words “to be used there-with. ”, of the words “to be used therewith

by the addition at the end of subsection (2) of that section of the following new paragraph

prescribing a scheme for the payment of re-wards to excise officers and informers, out of the Reward Fund established under section 58a.”.

Section 35 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (2) of that section as follows -—

{1) by the substitution, for the words “fifty rupees ”, of the words “ five thousand rupees” ; and

by the substitution, for the words “ six weeks ”, of the words “ two months”.

Section 46 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for all the words from shall be guilty” to “so continued” of the words “shali be guilty

- of an offence, and be liable on conviction—

. in the case of an offence referred to in paragraph (a), (c), (d), (e), (Gf), (g) or (h) to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year or toa fine which may extend to one hundred thousand rupees, or to both such imprison-ment and fine, and where the act hereby penalised is continued after conviction he shall be liable to a further fine of ten thousand rupees for each day during which the offence is so continued

Section 47 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, as follows :—~

by the substitution, for the words “six months”, of the words “one year”; and

.by the substitution, for the words “one thousand rupees,”, of the words “one hundred thousand rupees, ”.

Section 48 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for the words “two hundred rupees, ”, of the words “five thousand rupees, ”,

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Section 50 of the principal enactment is hereby amended ‘by the substitution, for the words “‘one hundred rupees, ”, of the words “ten thousand rupees, ”,

Section 56 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for the words “one thousand rupees, ”, of the words “ five hundred thousand rupees, ”.

The following new section is hereby inserted imme-diately after section 58, and shall have effect as section 58a of the principal. enactment :-~

‘Excise

There shall be established a Fund

There shall be paid out of the Fund, all payments required to be made as rewards to excise officers and informers, in accordance with the scheme prescribed by rules made under section 32.’.

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.’