Code Of Criminal Procedure (Amendment)



Code Of Criminal Procedure (Amendment)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT No. 15 OF 1979.

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:

[12th October
, 1982
]
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, No. 39 of 1982.

Amendment of Section 243 of the No. 15 of 1979.

2. Section 243 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. 15 of 1979, is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution, for paragraph (a) thereof, of the following paragraph:

(a) for the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the expenses incurred in or incidental to the attendance and giving of evidence by any person summoned to give evidence in any trial before the High Court. or at the inquiry preliminary to any such trial or in any trial before the Magistrate’s Court for any offence under the Bribery Act, and the conditions,. on which such payments may be allowed; “.