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| (1) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder or fails to comply with any direction given under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction-
| | (a) where the nature of the offence involves injury to the health of the public, to imprisonment for a term not less than six months and not exceeding three years, and also to a fine not less than one thousand rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees; | | |
| | (b) where the offence is the contravention of subsection (5) or subsection (9) of section 14, to imprisonment for a term not less than three months and not exceeding one year and also to a fine not less than five hundred rupees and not exceeding one thousand rupees; and | | |
| | (c) for any other offence-
| | | (i) for the first offence to a fine not less than two hundred and fifty rupees and not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment; |
| (ii) for a second or subsequent offence to imprisonment for a term not less than three months and not exceeding one year and also to a fine not less than five hundred rupees and not exceeding one thousand rupees. |
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| (2) Where a person convicted for an offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder is convicted for a second or subsequent offence of a like or similar nature under this Act or any regulations made thereunder, the court convicting him for the second or subsequent offence may-
| | (a) cause the name and the address of the person convicted and the offence and the punishment imposed for that offence to be published in such newspaper or in such other manner as the court may direct and recover the cost of publication from the person convicted as if it were a fine imposed on him ; | | |
| | (b) cancel the licence (if any) issued to the person convicted for the manufacture, importation, preparation, storage, sale and distribution of food under this Act or any other law and inform the relevant licensing authority accordingly. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts