Parliament (Powers And Privileges) (Amendment) Act (No. 27 of 1997)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 27 of the principal enactment

4. Section 27 of the principal enactment as amended by Law, No. 5 of 1978 is hereby further amended as follows:"

(1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:"

	(1) Subject to the provisions" of subsections (2) and (3), Parliament shall have power and jurisdiction to punish summarily any breach of the privileges of Parliament specified in Part B of the Schedule to this Act which is committed in respect of, or in relation to, Parliament by any member or any other person." ;

(2) by the repeal of subsection (1A) of that section ; and

(3) by the substitution, for the marginal note to that section, of the following marginal note :-