{"id":219923,"date":"2019-09-24T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=219923"},"modified":"2019-10-04T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:32:04","slug":"sl-coa-if-the-words-are-unambiguous-court-shall-give-effect-to-the-plain-words-of-the-statute-sinhala-text-prevailed-over-english-text-in-a-case-of-inconsistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/09\/24\/sl-coa-if-the-words-are-unambiguous-court-shall-give-effect-to-the-plain-words-of-the-statute-sinhala-text-prevailed-over-english-text-in-a-case-of-inconsistency\/","title":{"rendered":"SL CoA | If words are unambiguous, Court shall give effect to plain words of the Statute; Sinhala text prevailed over English text in a case of inconsistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Court of Appeal of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka<\/strong>: Mahinda Samayawardhena, J. entertained a writ petition where the application sought certiorari for quashing the seizure and detention of the goods from his possession and to prohibit the respondents from seizing, detaining, and thereafter instituting and or continuing with any prosecution on that basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The story of the petitioner was that the cardboard boxes which contained cigarettes without any health warnings were allegedly seized and detained by the respondents during transportation and storage on the basis that such conduct of the petitioner violated Section 34 of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act, 2006. The petitioner stated that such seizure upon failure to display health warnings on the \u201ccardboard boxes\u201d (which the Petitioner has named as \u201cnon-retail master cases\u201d) was a misconstruction of the said Section and also against the intention of the legislature, which was to warn the end-user of the ill-effects of smoking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The counsel for the petitioner submitted that case depended upon the meaning given to the word \u201ccarton\u201d used in Section 34 of the Act. It was further stated that a bare reading of the Section highlighted that the scope was only limited to manufacturing, selling and offering for sale of only packets of tobacco products without health warnings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the contrary, the respondent contended that the stated Section was repealed and replaced by another Section which was read as, \u201c<strong>Section 34A enacts in detail how to display health warnings. Then it is seen that this amended section covers manufacturing, importing, selling, offering for sale, supplying, distributing and storing of packets, packages and cartons containing tobacco products without health warnings<\/strong>.\u201d Hence, it was further stated that after 16<sup>th<\/sup> amendment, Article 23 of the Constitution stated that \u2018<strong>All laws and subordinate legislation shall be enacted or made and published in Sinhala and Tamil, together with a translation thereof in English<\/strong>.\u2019 It was further noted that where there was any inconsistency between Sinhala text and English text, Section 7 of the Amending Act, 2015 came into force and gave prevalence to Sinhala text over English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court further observed that Law in this regard was understood as it was stated in the Sinhala text, and not in the English text, which was only a translation of the Sinhala text. The Act had originally been enacted in Sinhala and Tamil languages. Hence it was unnecessary to understand the meaning of the word \u201ccarton\u201d found in Section 34 of the English text as that was how the word \u201cSinhala text\u201d found in Section 34 of the Sinhala text had been translated into English. If the English translation for \u201cSinhala text\u201d as \u201ccarton\u201d was incorrect; instead of \u201ccarton\u201d, \u201ccardboard box\u201d or any other word or term was to be used. In short, the English word \u201ccarton\u201d shall be understood by the meaning given to the Sinhala word \u201ctext\u201d, and not <em>vice versa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>Court noted that It is abundantly clear that by the said amendment, the legislature wanted to extend the display of health warnings from packets, to packets, packages and cardboard boxes; and also to expand the activities from manufacturing, selling and offering for sale, to manufacturing, importing, selling, offering for sale, supplying, distributing and storing. That means, after the amendment, these cardboard boxes containing tobacco products, which were used <em>inter alia <\/em>for storage and transportation of packets of cigarettes, contained health warnings as prescribed in Section 34 of the amending Act. It was held that, \u201c<strong><em>When the words of an Act are clear, there is no necessity to go into detail of the history of the law, the international conventions relating to the same and to apply various theories of interpretation of statutes to understand or to interpret the Law<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence, it was declared that the requirement was, the cardboard boxes contained tobacco products, which were used <em>inter alia <\/em>for storage and transportation of packets of cigarettes, contained health warnings as prescribed in Section 34 of the amending Act was completely in consonance with the purpose of the amending Act and the intention of the legislature. Thus, the petition was dismissed.[Ceylon Tobacco Company v. National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol,\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/46kQ64Pf\">2019 SCC OnLine SL CA 9<\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>decided on 12-09-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court of Appeal of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Mahinda Samayawardhena, J. entertained a writ petition where the application sought <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":147611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[30699,37699,37698,30052],"class_list":["post-219923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-foreigncourts","tag-certiorari","tag-section-34-of-national-authority-on-tobacco-and-alcohol-act","tag-seizure-and-detention-of-the-goods","tag-tobacco-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SL CoA | If words are unambiguous, Court shall give effect to plain words of the Statute; 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