7. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby amend ed as follows:
| (a) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words " Additional District Judges and Judges of the Family Court, Magistrates or Judges of the Primary Court, to the same District Court, Family Court, Magistrate's Court and Primary Court respectively", of the words " Additional District Judges, Judges of the Small Claims Court and Magistrate's Court respectively in ; |
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| (b) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution, of the following subsection therefor:"
| | " (2) Every Additional District Judge, Judge of the Small Claims Court or Magistrate appointed to any such Court, shall sit separately and exercise all the powers and the jurisdiction vested in the District Court, the Small Claims Court or the Magistrate's Court as the case may be. ; and | | |
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| (c) by the addition immediately after subsection (2) of that section of the following subsection :-
| | " (3) Every Magistrate appointed to a judicial division shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Magistrate appointed for every other judicial division, for the purposes of exercising jurisdiction under section 9(b) (iii) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No, 15 of 1979.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts