3. Section 451 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
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| | (1) In every case of a trial at Bar before the High Court under section 450, the relevant provisions of the Judicature Act shall apply on the question of the nomination of the Judges of the Court and the place where such trial shall be held. | | |
| | (2) The Chief Justice may nominate more than one Bench of Judges to constitute High Courts at Bar to hear trials in the same zone or province, and the benches so nominated may commence and continue their hearings at the same time. | | |
| | (3) Any thing to the contrary in this Code or any other law notwithstanding an appeal shall lie from any judgement, sentence or order pronounced at a trial under section 450. Such appeal shall be to the Supreme Court and shall be heard by a Bench of not less than five Judges of that Court nominated by the Chief Justice- It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to nominate himself to such Bench, | | |
| | (4) The provisions in this Code and of any other written law governing appeals to the Court of Appeal from judgments, sentences and orders of the High Court in cases tried without a jury shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to appeals to the Supreme Court, under sub section (3) from judgments, sentences and orders pronounced at a trial held before the High Court at Bar under section 450.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts