Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 2021

PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA CONSUMER AFFAIRS AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) ACT, No. 20 OF 2021 [Certified on 22nd of September, 2021] Printed on the Order of Government Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of September 24, 2021 PRINTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, SRI LANKA TO BE PURCHASED AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS BUREAU, COLOMBO 5 Price : Rs. 9.00 Postage : Rs. 15.00 This Act can be downloaded from www.documents.gov.lk Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) 1 Act, No. 20 of 2021 [Certified on 22nd of September, 2021] L.D.—O. 46/2021 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSUMER AFFAIRS AUTHORITY ACT, NO. 9 OF 2003 BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: - 1. This Act may be cited as the Consumer Affairs Short title Authority (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 2021. 2. Section 60 of the Consumer Affairs Authority Act, Amendment of No. 9 of 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal section 60 of Act, No. 9 of 2003 enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :- (1) by the insertion immediately after subsection (4) thereof, the following: - “(4A) Any person who fails or refuses to comply with an order made under subsection (5) of section 20 or acts in contravention of such order commits an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate, be liable to - (a) where such person is not a body corporate, to a fine not less than rupees one hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees five hundred thousand or to an imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment in the case of a first offence, and to a fine not less than rupees two hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees one million or to an imprisonment of either description for a term 2 Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 2021 not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment in the case of a subsequent offence; or (b) where such person is a body corporate, to a fine not less than rupees five hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees five million in the case of a first offence and to a fine not less than rupees one million and not exceeding rupees ten million in the case of a subsequent offence.”; and (2) in subsection (5) thereof, by the substitution for the words and figures “provisions referred to in subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this section” of the words and figures “provisions referred to in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) or (4A) of this section”. Act not to apply 3. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared in respect of that the provisions of section 2 of this Act shall not apply in offences committed prior respect of any offence committed under subsection (4A) of to, coming into section 60 of the principal enactment, where such offence operation of this was committed prior to the coming into operation of this Act Act.

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