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Part XVIII · General Provisions

110. Offences under this Act

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act commits an offence under this

Act.

(2)

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of any rule or order made under this Act, the contravention of, or failure to comply with which entails criminal sanction, commits an offence under this Act.

(3)

Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, then every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director or an officer of such body corporate shall be deemed to have committed that offence unless such person proves that the offence was committed without such person’s knowledge, or that such person exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.

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