Penal Code (Amendment) Act (No. 16 of 2006)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 365 B of the principal enactment

13. Section 365B of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1) in sub section (2) of that section-

	(a) by the substitution in paragraph (a) of that subsection for the words "seven years" of the words "five years";

	(b) by the substitution in paragraph (b) of that subsection for the words "ten years" of the words "seven years";

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