7. Section 211 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows.-
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) thereof ; and |
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| (2) by the addition immediately after the renumbered subsection (1) of the following new subsection :-
| | "(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers of the court under subsection (1), the court may give costs to a party, in the case of any frivolous or vexatious action or application or defence by the other party or in the case of expense to such party, occasioned by the delay or default of the other party or by the making of any unnecessary or unreasonable application by the other party, so however, that the costs so ordered shall in no case exceed five hundred per centum of the costs that may be ordered in an application or action of that category, at the rates prescribed for the purposes of section 214.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts