5. Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of section 21 ; |
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| (2) by the substitution, for the words "Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall", of the words " The provisions of this Ordinance, other than subsection (2) of this section, shall not"; |
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| (3) by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following new subsection:-
| | " (2) No person shall, in any resthouse, proprietary club or hotel referred to in subsection (1), play a game of chance or of mixed chance and skill with any instrument or appliance the importation of which is prohibited by Order made under subsection (1) of section 3a, whether or not such instrument or appliance is one that has been actually imported into Ceylon and whether or not it is one the importation of which into Ceylon has been before the coming into force of such Order. Any person who contravenes the provisions of this subsection shall be iguilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment." ; and | | |
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| (4) in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution, for the word " Ordinance ", of the words "Certain provisions of the Ordinance ". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts