Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, Volume 13Printed at the Ceylon Government Press, 1953 - Sri Lanka |
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Page 2119 - No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Page 2825 - That such candidate and his election agent took all reasonable means for preventing the commission of corrupt and illegal practices at such election ; and (c.) That the offences mentioned in the said report were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited character...
Page 2169 - Being armed as aforesaid by night, and being so armed with intent to break or enter any building whatever, and to commit a crime therein; The Criminal Code.
Page 2825 - ... that a candidate at such election has been guilty by his agents of the offence of treating and undue influence, and illegal practice, or of any of such offences, in reference to such election, and the election court further report that the candidate has proved to the court — (a) That no corrupt or illegal practice was committed at such election by the candidate or his election agent and...
Page 2121 - The Court may presume — (a) That a man who is in possession of stolen goods soon after the theft is either the thief or has received the goods knowing them to be stolen, unless he can account for his possession...
Page 2197 - Whenever any alien attempts to enter the United States the burden of proof shall be upon such alien to establish that he is not subject to exclusion under any provision of the immigration laws...
Page 2199 - ... aliens who come to the mainland of the United States from the insular possessions thereof: Provided further, That any person who shall be arrested under the provisions of this section on the ground that he has entered or been found in the United States in violation of any other law thereof which imposes on such person the burden of proving his right to enter or remain, and who shall fail to e'stablish the existence of the right claimed, shall be deported to the place specified in such other law.
Page 2361 - ... participating organizations": GENERAL PRINCIPLES The participating organizations should, in extending technical assistance for economic development of under-developed countries: 1. Regard it as a primary objective to help those countries to strengthen their national economies through the development of their industries and agriculture, with a view to promoting their economic and political independence in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, and to ensure the attainment of higher levels...
Page 2825 - ... and (c.) That the offences mentioned in the said report were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited character: and (d.) That in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt or illegal practice on the part of such candidate and of his agents; then the election of such candidate shall not, by reason of the offences mentioned in such report, be void, nor shall the candidate be subject to any incapacity under this Act.
Page 2201 - Act the averments of the prosecutor contained in the information, declaration or claim shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary...