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| (1) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Law or any regulation made thereunder or any order or direction lawfully given under this Law shall be guilty of an offence under this Law. |
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| (2) Every person who is guilty of an offence under this Law shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine and if such offence is a continuing offence to an additional fine of one hundred rupees for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction. |
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| (3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law, every offence under this Law shall be a cognizable offence within the meaning and for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Code. |
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| (4) Where an offence under this Law is committed by a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of such body of persons shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of that offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and in all the circumstances. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts