Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsAmendment of section 56 of the principal enactment. [ 5, 49 of 1961.]
| 7. Section 56 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for all the words from " a sum of money " to " as the case may be ;", of the following: - "in lieu of such cancellation or suspension or by way of compounding the offence which may have been committed, as the case may be, either such sum of money, not exceeding one thousand rupees, as may be specified in a notice sent by post or otherwise delivered to such person by the Government Agent or such excise officer if the sum so specified is tendered by such person before the expiry of fourteen days after the date of such notice, or the sum so specified and such additional amount, not exceeding ten per centum of the sum so specified, as may be determined by the Government Agent or such excise officer if the sum so specified and the additional amount so determined are tendered by such person before the expiry of twenty-eight days after the date of such notice ;". |