4. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 54, and shall have effect as section 54A, of the principal enactment: -
| 54A. Every employer who fails to keep or maintain any register, notice or record required under section 18 to be kept or maintained, or who fails to produce the register or record required to be produced by the Commissioner or any prescribed officer under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 50, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable-
| | (a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not less than one hundred rupees and not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees; | | |
| | (b) in the case of a second offence, to a fine not less than two hundred and fifty rupees and not exceeding five hundred rupees; and | | |
| | (c) in the case of a subsequent offence, to a fine not less than five hundred rupees and not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, and shall in addition, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts