National Housing (Amendment) Act (No. 36 of 1966)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 96 of the principal Act [ 11, 42 of 1958.]

31. Section 96 of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows :-

(1) in subsection (1) of that section-

	(a) by the substitution, for the words " before entering ", of the words " before, on, or after entering " ; and

(b) in paragraph (a) of. that subsection by the addition, at the end of that paragraph, of the following :-

" (iv) by the Minister; or

(v) at a meeting of the Cabinet by the Prime Minister or any other Minister presiding at that meeting ; or " ; and

(2) by the addition, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsection :-

	" (3) Every officer or servant who fails to sign the declaration, or to observe the pledge, referred to in subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. ".