10. Amendment of section 12 of the principal enactment

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

Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

by the repeal of all the words from “Any Police

Officer” to the end of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following:—

“Any police officer not below the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police shall take possession of, and otherwise deal with, any account, property or investment, which is subject to a Freezing Order, and the Court may on application made by the said police officer and for the purpose of determining who owns, possesses or is in control of such account, property or investment to which the Freezing

Order relates, order—

(a)

that any document relevant to—

(i)

identifying, locating or quantifying such account, property or investment;

(ii)

establishing the ownership, possession or control of such account, property or investment;

(iii)

obtaining any other information pertaining to such account, property or investment, be delivered forthwith to such police officer; and ”;

(2)

in subsection (3) of that section, by the substitution for the words “Upon determining in whom the ownership, possession or control of any property to which the Freezing Order relates,” of the words

“Upon determining who owns, possesses or is in control of any account, property or investment to which the Freezing Order relates,”.

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