20. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 44, and shall have effect as section 44A, section 44B, section 44C and section 44D, of the principal enactment: - "
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| | (1) The Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare any article to be a specified article for the purposes of this section. | | |
| | (2) No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any specified article packed in a container-
| | | (a) unless the net weight or measure of such article is legibly written or printed on the outside of such container or upon a label firmly attached thereto, or |
| (b) unless, in a case where such container is cased, enclosed or contained in a package, such net weight or measure, in addition to being legibly written or printed on the outside of such container or upon a label firmly attached thereto, is legibly written or printed on the outside of such package or on a label firmly attached thereto. |
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| | (3) A person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. | | |
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| 44B. Any person who in any place or area in which an Order under section 29 is in force, delivers or causes to be delivered to the purchaser of an article or to his agent a quantity legs than the quantity represented to be sold shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine 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. |
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| 44C. Any person who uses for the purpose of any trade, or has in his possession for use in any trade, any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument or any striker which is not in conformity with the requirements of any regulation relating to its composition, weight, length or form shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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| 44D. Any person who uses for the purpose of any trade, or has in his possession for use in any trade, any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument which is not just shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine 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.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts