Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Law (No. 20 of 1977)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 612 of the principal enactment

98. Section 612 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; and

(2) by the addition, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsection: -

	" (2) The provisions of the preceding subsection shall, mutatis mutandis, apply where a woman has been made a co-defendant.".