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AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSUMER PROTECTION Act, No. 1 OF 1979
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :
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[28th July
, 1992 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act, No. 34 of 1992.
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Amendment of section 6 of Act, No, 1 of 1979.
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2. Section 6 of the Consumer Protection Act, No, 1 of 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the principal enactment “) is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (4) of that section, and the substitution, of the following subsection therefor:
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” (4) Any person who removes, alters, obliterates, erases or defaces any label, description or price mark on any article or sells, or offers for sale, any article from or on which the label, description or price mark has been removed, altered, obliterated, erased or defaced shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. “.
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Amendment of section 28 of the principal enactment.
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3. Section 28 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
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(1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution, of the following subsection therefor:
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” (1) Every person who acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or any regulation made there under shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. “.
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(2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1), of the following new subsection :
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(1A)
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(a) Any person guilty of an offence under this Act by reason of a contravention of the provisions of section 11 or section 12 or section 13 shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable-
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(i) in the case of a first offence to a fine not less than one thousand rupees and not exceeding three thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment; and
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(ii) in the case of a subsequent offence to a line not less than, three thousand rupees and not exceeding seven thousand five hundred rupees and to imprisonment of either description for a tern not exceeding six months.
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(b) Any person guilty of an offence under this Act, in respect of which no punishment is prescribed by paragraph (a) shall, on conviction before Magistrate, be liable
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(i) in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding three thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment ; and
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(ii) in the ease of a subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding seven thousand five hundred rupees and to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months.”.
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Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistancy.
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4. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
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