Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation Act 2000 · As enacted
4. High Court to try offences under this Act
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 High Court of Sri Lanka holden in Colombo or the High Court established by Article 154P of the
Constitution for the Western Province shall, notwithstanding anything in any other law, have exclusive jurisdiction to try offences under this Act.
Where an act constituting an offence under this Act is committed outside Sri Lanka, the High Court referred to in subsection (1) shall have jurisdiction to try such offence as if it were committed within Sri Lanka if —
the offence is committed against, or on board, a ship registered in Sri Lanka at the time the offence is committed ;
the person who committed the act is present in
Sri Lanka ;
such act is committed by a citizen of Sri Lanka or by stateless person who has his habitual residence in
Sri Lanka ;
during the commission of such act, a citizen of
Sri Lanka is seized, threatened, injured or killed ;
such act is committed in order to compel the
Government of Sri Lanka to do, or abstain from doing, any act.