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As enacted

Part I · General

5. Offences

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

Any person—

(a)

who does not possess any other identity document and who makes a request for an identity document on the basis of information which is false ;

and

(b)

who certifies or authenticates a photograph on a request made by a person who does not possess an identity document, which certification or authentication is false, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after summary trial be liable to a fine not less than fifty thousand rupees and not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a period not less than one month and not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

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