15. Any person-
| (a) who refuses or fails to deliver possession to the competent authority of any property which is vested in the Government by a vesting Order under this Act or which is requisitioned by a requisitioning Order under this Act; or |
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| (b) who wilfully or negligently destroys, damages or disables or causes to be destroyed or damaged or disabled or wilfully conceals or puts away or causes to be concealed or put away any property of a business undertaking acquired by or vested in the Government or any property in respect of which a subsidiary vesting Order or a requisitioning Order under this Act is made; or |
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| (c) who prevents or obstructs or directly or indirectly causes any other person to prevent or obstruct the competent authority in taking possession of such property; or |
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| (d) who obstructs any other person in the exercise by such other person of the powers conferred on him by section 13; or |
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| (e) who fails to furnish to any other person any return or information required by such other person under section 13 or withholds in furnishing such return or information any material particular or furnishes any information knowing or having reason to believe such information to be false; or |
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| (f) who fails to furnish the information referred to in sub-section (4) of section 14 or who wilfully withholds all or any part of such information or who furnishes information knowing such information to be false or who wilfully or negligently destroys or damages or causes to be destroyed or damaged any property belonging to any business undertaking specified in a notice of claim and in respect of which a notice of disclaimer has not been made, |
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shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a period not less than one year and not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts