Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2022 · As enacted · Part II · Destruction of an Anti-Presonnel Mine
11. Anti-personnel mine in private premises
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Where a member of the armed forces or police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that an anti-personnel mine is on any private premises, such officer may–
with the consent of the person in charge of the premises, enter and search such premises at all reasonable times;
make such anti-personnel mine safe from being an immediate danger;
affix a warning relating to the anti-personnel mine in a conspicuous position to a thing or place near such anti-personnel mine;
take into custody any article or document in relation to the anti-personnel mine found or suspected to be in such premises;
seize, remove and detain any anti-personnel mine, if it is reasonably practicable to do so;
question any person occupying such premises; or
do any act or thing necessary or convenient to be done to carry out an investigation into the anti-personnel mine found or suspected to be in such premises.
The duties referred to in subsection (1) shall be performed by the member of the armed forces or police officer in accordance with such manner and procedures as may be prescribed.
Where a member of the armed forces or police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that an anti-personnel mine is on any private premises, such member of armed forces or police officer shall as soon as practicable inform the
Secretary of such suspicious.
The person in charge of any private premises referred to in subsection (1) shall provide such assistance as may be required by such member of the armed forces or police officer in performance of his duties under paragraph (a) of subsection (1).
Where the person in charge of any premises referred to in subsection (1) refuses to allow the member of the armed forces or a police officer to enter and search such premises, the member of the armed forces or the police officer shall enter and search the premises referred to in subsection (1)
under a warrant issued under section 13 in respect of that premises.
Part III