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| (1) If any Magistrate's Court or District Court in any case considers that a person accused of any of the offences referred to in section 388 and committed in its view or presence should be punished otherwise than there provided or such court is for any other reason of opinion that the case should not be disposed of under that section, such court after recording the facts constituting the offence and the statement of the accused as herein before provided may forward the case to the Attorney-General, and thereafter abide the Attorney-General's instructions. |
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| (2) The Attorney-General shall on receipt of such case, if satisfied of the facts either prosecute the offender in the appropriate Magistrate's Court or direct the Magistrate to hold an inquiry under Chapter XV with a view to committal of the offender for trial by the High Court or directly indict the offender for trial by the High Court: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts