Bribery (Amendment) Law (No. 38 of 1974)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 8 of the principal enactment

5. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; and

(2) by the addition, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection: -

	" (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law to the contrary, any District Court shall have jurisdiction to try an indictment for bribery in respect of an offence under section 23a of this Act. ".