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Part VI · Supplementary

36. Punishment for contravention in relation to disclosure of confidential information

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), any person who divulges any confidential information obtained by the authority from any declaration or return furnished or any statement made or information supplied to or obtained by, an inspector or an international inspector or a member of the inspection team during the course of any inspection carried out under the provision of this Act or from the OPCW or any

State Party, to any other person shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall, upon conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine.

(2)

Any information specified in subsection (1) may be disclosed only with the written consent of the person to whose affairs it relates or for the purpose of—

(a)

enabling Sri Lanka to fulfill its obligations under the Convention; or

(b)

the implementation of these provisions of this Act.

Read on from s 37

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