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Essential Public Services Act (No. 61 of 1979) - Sect 4

Offences

4.
(1) Every person who commits an offence under this Act shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to rigorous imprisonment for a term not less than two years and not exceeding five years or to a fine not less than two thousand rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(2) Where a person is convicted by any court for an offence under this Act, the court may, in addition to any other penalty that it imposes under subsection (1), make one or both of the following orders :-
(a) that all property, movable or immovable, of the person convicted shall be forfeited to the Republic;
(b) in any case where the person convicted is registered in any register maintained under any written law as entitling such person to practise any profession or vocation, that the name of such person be removed from such register.
(3) Where the court makes order under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) in respect of any person, every alienation or disposal of property made by such person after the date of publication of an Order under subsection (1) of section 2 in relation to any service provided by such person, shall be deemed to have been, and to be, null and void.


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