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Part VI · Supplementary

35. Search warrants

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

Where a Magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any thing or document is, in contravention of the provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder, kept, possessed, sold, or manufactured in any place or premises, or that any document directly or indirectly relating to or connected with any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which, if carried out, would be an offence under this Act, is in any place or premises, he may grant a search warrant authorizing any officer or person named in the warrant, at any time or times within one month from the date of the warrant, to enter, with or without his assistants, if need be by force, the place or premises named in the warrant, and to search the place or premises and any person found therein, and, if there is reason to suspect that an offence under this Act has been committed in relation to any thing found in the place or premises or in the possession of any such person or that any document so found is such a document as aforesaid, to seize and detain such thing or document.

(2)

For the purposes of any search under subsection (1), all such measures may be taken and such devices and such force used as may be necessary to stop any vessel, boat, animal or

Chemical Weapons Convention vehicle, which is not brought to a halt by the person in charge thereof in compliance with any order, direction or signal given in that behalf by any of the officers or persons mentioned in that subsection.