20. Where the Central Authority receives notice that a child has been wrongfully removed to Sri Lanka from a specified country, no court in Sri Lanka shall decide or determine any question on the merits relating to the custody of the child to whom the notice relates
| (a)until after the Central Authority or a court in Sri Lanka has refused an application made under section 6 or section 9, as the case may be, for the return of such child to the specified country ; or |
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| (b)until after the expiration of the period of six weeks from the date of such notice, and no application under section 6 for the return of that child to the specified country has been made during that period. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts