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| (1) Where any firm or person has made default in complying with any provision of this Act requiring such firm or person to file with or deliver or send to the Registrar any statement of particulars or of any change in particulars or such particulars as are required, by the Registrar under this Act, and has by reason of such default committed an offence against this Act, the Registrar may if he thinks fit, instead of instituting proceedings in Court or where such proceedings have already been instituted, instead of continuing such proceedings against such firm or person in respect of such offence, accept from, such firm or person such sum of money as the Registrar may think proper in composition of the offence ; and any sum so accepted shall be credited to the Consolidated Fund and the record of every such sum of money accepted in composition of that offence shall be entered in a register kept and maintained by the Registrar, |
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| (2) Where the Registrar has accepted any sum of money under the provisions of subsection (1) in composition of any offence, proceedings shall not be taken against such firm or person in respect of that offence, or if already taken, shall not be continued. |
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| (3) Where any sum of money payable in composition of an offence under the provisions of subsection (1) remains unpaid for a period of one month from the date fixed for its payment by the Registrar or such extended time as the Registrar may allow, the Registrar may report the said default in such payment to a Magistrate and the amount thereof shall be recovered from such firm or person in respect of such default in the same manner as if it were a fine imposed by Court, and such Court shall direct that the amount in default be credited to the Consolidated Fund. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts