5. Section 49 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections ;
| "(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 27. of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable be imprisonment of either description for a term not less than three years and not exceeding five years or to a fine not less than one hundred thousand rupees and on a second or subsequent conviction to imprisonment of either description for a. term not less than five years and not exceeding seven years or to a fine not less than five hundred thousand rupees. |
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| (3A) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of section 27 of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not less than one year and not exceeding three years or to a fine not less than fifty thousand rupees and on a second or subsequent conviction to imprisonment of either description for a term not less than three years and not exceeding five years or to a fine not less than one hundred thousand rupees". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts