Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2022 · As enacted · Part III · General Provisions
17. Forfeiture
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
The Court which convicts any person of an offence under this Act, may impose any of the penalties hereinbefore specified and may, if it thinks fit, order that all or any articles in respect of which the offence was committed, and any thing used for the conveyance of such articles are liable to be forfeited to the State.
An order for forfeiture imposed under subsection (1)
shall take effect-
where no appeal is preferred to the Court of Appeal against the order of forfeiture, on the expiration of the period within which an appeal may be preferred to the Court of Appeal against such order of forfeiture;
where an appeal had been preferred to the Court of
Appeal against such order of forfeiture, and no appeal is preferred to the Supreme Court against the order of the Court of Appeal affirming or upholding such order of forfeiture, on the expiration of the period within which an appeal may be preferred to the Supreme Court from such order of the Court of Appeal; or
where an appeal had been preferred, to the Court of
Appeal against such order of forfeiture, and an appeal has been preferred to the Supreme Court from the determination of the Court of Appeal on the first mentioned appeal, upon the determination of the Supreme Court affirming or upholding the order of forfeiture.
The provisions of Chapter XXXVIII of Part IX of the
Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979 shall apply in relation to the disposal of any article forfeited to the State under subsection (1).