Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsProtection of proprietors, &c, of newspapers from legal proceedings,
| 5. No civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or maintained against any person, in his capacity as the proprietor or editor or printer or publisher of any newspaper, in respect of the bona fide publication, whether before or on or after the late of the commencement of this Act, in such news- paper of a report of the proceedings, or any part of he proceedings, of any inquiry or investigation held by or before the Contracts Commission, or of he report or recommendations, or any part of the report or recommendations, issued or made by the said Commission, for any purposes mentioned in the Commission (including any such purposes connected with or relating to the Kandy Water Supply Contract), and where any such proceedings in respect of any such publication have been instituted in any court before that date the court shall, on the application of any party, set aside or dismiss the proceedings, without making any award as to costs or expenses. |