30. Prohibition on deriving benefits from operating a declared online location

Any person, whether in or outside Sri Lanka, who solicits, receives or agrees to receive any financial or other material benefit as an inducement or reward for operating a declared online location commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding five million rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction, such term of imprisonment or fine or both such imprisonment and fine may be doubled.

Where a court convicts any person of an offence under this section, the court shall order, in addition to imposing on that person the punishment in subsection (1), the forfeiture of any assets acquired through the commission of an offence under this section.