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Administration of Justice Law (No. 44 of 1973) - Sect 46

Minister to nominate court for specific categories of offences

46.
(1) The Minister may. by regulation, nominate a court or courts situated anywhere in Sri Lanka for the purposes of trial and disposal of such categories of actions, proceedings or matters as shall be specified in such regulation, and accordingly, subject to the provisions of subsection (2), such court or courts shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this or any other written law in regard to the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of such court, have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all such actions, proceedings or matters, as the case may be.
(2) Where a regulation made under this section has become operative, all actions, proceedings or matters of the specified category which have been instituted and are pending in any other court and in which no evidence has been recorded may, by Order of the Minister, be transferred to any court so nominated.


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