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| (1) A Magistrate's Court shall have jurisdiction and is hereby required to hear, try and determine in the manner provided for by written law, all prosecutions instituted therein against any person in respect of any offence committed wholly or in part within its division: |
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| (2) A Magistrate's Court may impose any of the following sentences:
| | (a) imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months; | | |
| | (b) fine not exceeding one thousand five hundred rupees; | | |
| | | (d) any lawful sentence combining any two of the sentences aforesaid. | | |
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| (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to repeal or affect the provisions of any other written law whereby special powers of punishment are giver to Magistrates' Courts. |
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| (4) A Magistrate's Court shall have jurisdiction to hold inquiries into deaths in accordance with the provisions of Chapter II of this Law and to exercise and perform all such powers and duties conferred or required by law to be exercised or performed by such court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts