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Part I · Preliminary

3. Offences

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(l)

Except as provided for in this Act, a person shall not-

(a)

receive, use, develop, produce, import, export, sell, expose for sale, purchase, supply, transport, acquire, possess, retain, stockpile or transfer an anti-personnel mine; and

(b)

modify or convert an anti-personnel mine into any other form of an explosive.

(2)

Any person who acts in contravention of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Read on from s 4

Part II

Destruction of an Anti-Presonnel Mine

Read on from Part II

Part III

General Provisions

Read on from Part III