12. Section 36 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: "
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection(1) thereof ; |
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| (2) in, the renumbered subsection (1) of that section by the substitution, for the words " the hours of eight of the clock in the morning and five of the clock is the evening ", of the words " six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening". |
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| (3) by the addition, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1) of that section of the following new subsection : "
| | " (2) Any person who resists or obstructs the General Manager or his agents or workmen in the exercise of the powers conferred on such General Manager, his agents and workmen by subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts