28. The following sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 85A, and shall have effect as sections 85B and 85C respectively, of the principal enactment:
| 85B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 303 (5) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, the provisions of section 29 of this Act shall apply to any person convicted of bribery, and on whom a suspended sentence has been imposed under section 303 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act in respect of that conviction. |
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| 85C. Any prosecution pending in the High Court on the day preceding the date of coining into operation of this section, in respect of the offences of soliciting, accepting or offering any gratification which or the value of which does not exceed two hundred rupees, shall stand removed to the Magistrate's Court if the High Court having regard to the nature of the offence and other circumstances decides that any such prosecution should be transferred and such Magistrate's Court shall have the jurisdiction to take cognizance of and hear and determine or to complete the same: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts