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Part I · Preliminary

4. Exceptions

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

(1)

A member of the armed forces or a police officer may, in the course of his employment or duties, receive, use, develop, produce, transport, acquire, possess, retain, or transfer an anti-personnel mine authorized under section 5

for the purposes of developing, or training persons in, techniques of mine detection, mine clearance, mine deactivation, or mine destruction.

(2)

Subject to the provisions of section 11, a member of the armed forces or a police officer may, in the course of his employment or duties, seize, receive, transfer, acquire or retain an anti-personnel mine for the purposes of deactivating or destroying such anti-personnel mine.

Read on from s 5

Part II

Destruction of an Anti-Presonnel Mine

Read on from Part II

Part III

General Provisions

Read on from Part III