Judicature (Amendment) Act (No. 16 of 1989)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Replacement of section 11 of the principal enactment

8. Section 11 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: "

11.

	(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) all trials in the High Court shall be before a Judge of the High Court sitting alone without a Jury.

	(2) Trial in the High Court shall be by Jury before a Judge of the High Court where at least one of the charges is for an offence referred to in the Second Schedule hereto arid the accused elects to be tried by a Jury.

	(3) The election by the accused, to be tried by a Jury, shall be made at any time before the commencement of the trial.".