1. Short title and date of operation

This Act may be cited as the Suppression of Terrorist bombings Act, No.11 of 1999 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister, by Order published in the

Gazette,certifies as the date on which the Convention for the

Suppression of Terrorist Bombings signed at New York on

January 12, 1998 (hereinafter reffered to as “ the Convention”)

enters into force in respect of Sri Lanka.