4. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 15 and shall have effect as sections 15A, 15B, 15C, AND 15D respectively of the principal enactment:-
| 15A. Any person who commits theft within the meaning of section 366 of the Penal Code, in 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 or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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| 15B. 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 15D. 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.". |
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