12.The following new section is hereby inserted y after section 30, and shall have effect 30a, of the principal enactment: -
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| | (1) Where any officer, authorized by the Bribery Commissioner in that behalf under section 3, detects any person accepting, soliciting or offering an illegal gratification, such officer shall-
| | | (a) without unnecessary delay take such person before any Magistrate who may admit such person to bail; or |
| (b) produce such person before any Magistrate with a certificate under the hand of the Bribery Commissioner that such person has been detected accepting, soliciting or offering an illegal gratification. |
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| | (2) Where a person is produced before any Magistrate under paragraph (b) of subsection (1), the Magistrate shall remand such person until the conclusion of the trial and such person shall not be admitted to bail except with the sanction in writing of the Attorney-General. | | |
| | (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), in any proceeding under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1), where the Attorney- General informs the Magistrate that he 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