Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment)

Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment)


A LAW TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE.

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 Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Law, No. 19 of 1978.
Amendment of section 2 of Chapter 20.
2. Section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code, as amended by Act No. 18 of 1968, is hereby further amended by the insertion, immediately after the definition of ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents ” of the following new definition: –
” Government medical officer ” includes any officer of the Department of Forensic Medicine of any faculty of medicine of the University of Ceylon;’.