6. Section 30A of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :-
| 30A.
| | (1) Where any officer appointed to assist the Commission detects any person accepting, soliciting or offering an illegal gratification, such officer shall"
| | | (a) without unnecessary delay take such person before any Magistrate ; or |
| (b) produce such person before any Magistrate with a certificate under the hand of the Director-General that such person has been detected accepting, soliciting or offering an illegal gratification; or |
| (c) produce before the Magistrate any currency notes alleged to have been accepted, solicited or offered as an illegal gratification by the person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) together with a report under the hand of the Director-General that such notes were alleged to have been, so accepted, solicited or offered. |
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| | (2) Where a person is produced before any Magistrate, under paragraph (b) of sub section (1), the Magistrate shall remand such person until the conclusion of the trial: | | |
| | (3) Where any currency notes are produced before any Magistrate under para graph (c) of subsection (1) the Magistrate shall issue a certificate under his hand to the effect that notes of the denominations and numbers set out in the certificate were produced before him and such certificate shall be admissible in any proceedings instituted against the person alleged to have accepted, solicited or offered such notes in lieu of producing such notes in such proceedings. | | |
| | (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (2), in any proceeding under para graph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1), where the Commission informs the Magistrate that it does not propose to institute proceedings against the person in custody such person shall be discharged forthwith.". ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts