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Financial Transactions Reporting Act 2006 · As enacted · Part V · Currency Reporting at the Border

24. Currency reporting at border

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

(1)

Where a person —

(a)

is about to leave Sri Lanka or has arrived in Sri

Lanka ; or

(b)

is about to board or leave, or has boarded or left, any ship or aircraft , an authorised officer may, with such assistance as is reasonable and necessary, and with use of force as is necessary,

(i)

examine any article which a person has with him or her or in his or her luggage ; and

(ii)

if the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence under section 27 of this Act may have been or is being committed, search the person ;

Financial Transactions Reporting for the purpose of determining whether the person has in his or her possession, any cash or negotiable bearer instruments in respect of which a report under subsection 5 is required.

(2)

A person shall not be searched except by a person of the same sex.

(3)

An authorised officer, and any person assisting such officer may stop, board and search any ship, aircraft or conveyance for the purposes of exercising the powers conferred by subsections (1) or (2) of this section.

(4)

Where an authorised officer has reasonable grounds to believe that cash or negotiable bearer instruments found in the course of an examination or search, conducted under subsections (1) or (2) above, may afford evidence as to the commission of an unlawful activity, the officer may seize the cash or negotiable bearer instruments, within twenty-four hours of such seizure.

(5)

An authorised officer who has seized cash and negotiable bearer instrument under subsection (4) shall report such seizure to the Unit.

Read on from s 25

Part VI

Offences and Liabilities

Read on from Part VI

Part VII

Miscellaneous

Read on from Part VII