Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1988

PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF

SRI LANKA

PREVENTION OF TERRORISM

(TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)

(AMENDMENT)

ACT, No. 22 OF 1988

(Certified on 15th July, 1988]

Printed on the Orders of Government

Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic

Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of July15, 1988

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Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions)

(Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 1988

L. D—O. 27/88.

Aw ACT TO AMEND THE PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY

Provisions) Act, No. 48 or 1979

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist

Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :—

This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Terrorism

(Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 1988.

Section 15 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Tempo-rary Provisions) Act, No. 48 of 1979, is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substi-tution, of the following subsection therefor :—

“(1) Every person who commits an offence under this Act shall be triable without a preliminary inquiry, on an indictment before a Judge of the High Court sitting alone without a jury or before the High Court at Bar by three Judges without a jury, as may be decided by the

Chief Justice. The provisions of sections 450 and 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the trial of offences under this

Act by the High Court at Bar and to appeals from judge-

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ments, sentences and orders pronounced at any such

| trinl held by the High Court at Bar. ”.

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