Bribery (Amendment) Law

Bribery (Amendment) Law A Law to amend the Bribery Act. BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: – Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Bribery (Amendment) Law, No. 11 of 1976. Amendment of section 10 of Chapter 26. 2. Section 10 of the Bribery Act, hereinafter referred to as the ” principal enactment “, as amended by Act No. 40 of 1958 and Act No. 2 of 1965, is hereby further amended by the repeal of subsections (1) and (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections: – ” (1) Every indictment shall contain a list of the witnesses whom the prosecution intends to call at the trial and a list of all documents and things intended to be produced at such trial. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed or construed to debar the prosecution, after notice to the accused, from calling any witness or producing any document or thing not specified in the indictment. (2) To every indictment shall be annexed a copy of the statements, if any, made by the accused and by every person who is intended to be called as a witness by the prosecution. “. Amendment of section 90 of the principal enactment. 3. Section 90 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after the definition of ” public servant “, of the following: – ” Provided however that where any local authority has been dissolved and the administration of the affairs of that authority has been vested in any person, every employee of that local authority immediately before its dissolution who continues in employment after such dissolution, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a public servant.”.