75. Section 138 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
| 138. It shall be lawful for any officer of customs to go on board any ship which shall be within the limits of any port or air port in Sri Lanka, and search any person on board, and his baggage or other belongings and it shall be lawful for him to search any person who shall have landed from any ship or any person passing or having passed through the custom house and the baggage or other belongings of such person, provided such officer shall have good reason to suppose that such person shall have any uncustomed, restricted or prohibited goods secreted about his person or in his baggage or other belongings ; and if any person shall obstruct any such officer in the performance of any such duty, every such person shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding five years or to both such fine and imprisonment. ". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts