Article 1:
Section seven of the principal law is hereby amended as follows:
-The words "five hundred pounds or in default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three years" are substituted for the words "one hundred pounds or in default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding two years";
-The present section as amended shall be sub-section (1);
-The following new sub-section is inserted at the end of the section:
Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph ( a) of sub-section (1) of section seventy of the Swaziland Subordinate Courts Proclamation 1938 (No. 66 of 1938) or in any other law, a Subordinate Court of the First Class may impose a punishment not in excess of the maximum punishment set out in sub-section (1) of this section."
