5. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 6, and shall have effect as section 7, of the principal enactment:-
| 7.Any person who, without the previous sanction of a certifying authority, prints, publishes, distributes or posts up, or causes to be printed, published, distributed or posted up, any newspaper advertisement, handbill, placard or poster which contains any reference to any order or decision of such certifying authority or any part thereof in respect of any public performance, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for any period not exceeding six months. ". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts