| (1) Without prejudice to section 14 the Authority shall-
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| (a) develop, administer, manage and control the airports and take adequate measures for the prevention of hijacking of aircrafts and against other acts of violence ; | | |
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| (b) plan, develop, construct and maintain runways taxiways, aprons, terminal and ancillary buildings and hangars as are necessary; | | |
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| (c) establish warehouses at the airports for the storage and processing of goods, including refrigeration and special handling ; | | |
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| (d) establish warehouses for purposes of customs bonding and storage of goods and merchandise of every description that have been seized, confiscated or otherwise held by the Government ; | | |
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| (e) provide facilities for the search of passengers' baggage and effects; | | |
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| (f) provide for postal, currency exchange, insurance, telephone and other communication facilities for the use of passengers and other persons at the airports ; | | |
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| (g) establish and maintain restaurants, cocktail bars and snack bars at the airports ; | | |
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| (h) maintain rest-rooms, toilets and other facilities at the airports; | | |
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| (i) establish and maintain hotels near airports ; | | |
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| (j) establish and maintain cinemas at or near airports for the use of bona fide passengers and guests; | | |
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| (k) provide facilities for receiving, handling, storage or transhipment of passengers' baggage and effects; | | |
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| (l) provide facilities for receiving, handling and transhipment of cargo of every description; | | |
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| (m) provide security arrangements for the safety of passengers' baggage and cargo ; | | |
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| (n) provide facilities for quarantine of persons, animals and plants; | | |
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| (o) make arrangements for passenger facilities at the airports, including florists, fruiterers, chemists, travellers' requisites, hair dressers, porterage and left luggage halls; | | |
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| (p) provide full banking facilities ; | | |
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| (q) regulate and control the plying of vehicles and the entry into and exit from airports of passengers and visitors, having due regard to the protocol functions of the Government; | | |
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| (r) provide facilities for the reception and handling of special visitors; | | |
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| (s) provide necessary transport facilities for passengers travelling to or from the airports ; | | |
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| (t) provide and maintain special areas for passengers, visitors to the airports, baggage and cargo; | | |
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| (u) establish and manage duty-free areas for incoming and outgoing passengers and let rooms and areas for the setting up of sales outlets and for the storage of merchandise; | | |
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| (v) establish and manage heliports; | | |
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| (w) provide adequate facilities for the exercise of the regulatory powers of the Government, including customs, immigration, health and security checks or may by itself exercise such regulatory powers of customs, immigration and health, where the Minister, with the concurrence of the Ministers in charge of the subjects of customs, immigration and health, respectively, so directs; | | |
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| (x) provide accommodation for all persons engaged in performing regulatory functions of the Government ; | | |
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| (y) provide adequate and efficient fire-fighting and safety equipment and personnel and carry out regular drills and exercises and other checks of all firearms and security equipment; | | |
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| (z) collect prescribed fees, rents and taxes. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts