4. Insertion of new sections 15a, iSp 15c and 15p in the principal enactment

The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 15 and shall have effect as sections 15a, 5B, [5c AND 15p respectively of the principal enactment :—

“OFFENCES RELATING TO THEFT AND DISTRUCTION OF

ANTIQUITIES

Offences 15a. Any person who commits theft within pares to the meaning of section 366 of the Penal Code, in anthgeiies respect of antiquity, in the possession of any other person shall be guilty of an offence under this

Ordinance and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not less than two years and not more than five years a or to both such fine and imprisonment.

2—D 047391—8,550 (04/98)

Amendment of

Amendment section

Penalty for distruction

&c. of antiquity.

‘Offences under this

Ordinance to be non-bailable.

Evidence.

15p. Any person who wilfully destroys, injures, defaces or tampers with any antiquity or wilfully damages any part of it, shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not less than two years and not more than five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

15c. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979 or any other written law, no person charged with, or accused of an offence under this

Ordinance shall! be released on bail.

15p. In a prosecution for an offence under this

Ordinance, a certificate purporting to be signed by the Director-General and to the effect that the object described therein is an antiquity, shall be admissible in evidence without further proof, and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.”.