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| (1) No court shall sentence any person to imprisonment for a term which is less than seven days. |
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| (2) Any court may, in any circumstances in which it is empowered by any law to sentence an offender to imprisonment, in lieu of imposing such sentence, order that the offender be detained in the precincts of the court until such hour on the day on which the order is made, not being later than 8 p.m., as the court may specify in the order. |
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| (3) When an offender is liable to be sentenced to imprisonment, the court may direct that such imprisonment shall be either rigorous or simple or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts