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AN ACT TO AMEND THE PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS ORDINANCE.
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:-
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[10th August
, 1983 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Printers and Publishers (Amendment) Act, No. 27 of 1983.
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Replacement of section 8 of Chapter 179.
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2. Section 8 of the Printers and Publishers Ordinance (as amended by Law No. 6 of 1976) is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
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“Offences.
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(1) Where a printer fails to comply with such of the provisions of section 2 of this Ordinance as are applicable to him or with the provisions of section 7 of this Ordinance, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred rupees notwithstanding that such fine may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose.
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(2) Where a publisher or other person employing a printer fails to comply with such of the provisions of section 2 of this Ordinance as are applicable to him, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred rupees notwithstanding that such fine may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose. “.
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