5.The Central Authority, either directly or through an intermediary, may take all appropriate measures,
| (a)to discover the whereabouts of a child who has been wrongfully removed to, or retained in Sri Lanka ; |
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| (b)to prevent further harm to any such child or prejudice to any other interested parties, by taking or causing to be taken, such provisional measures as may seem necessary ; |
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| (c)to secure the voluntary return of any such child to the specified country in which such child had his or her habitual residence or to bring about an amicable resolution of the differences between the person claiming that such child has been wrongfully removed to, or retained in, Sri Lanka and the person opposing the return of such child to the specified country in which that child has his or her habitual residence ; |
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| (d)to exchange, where desirable, information relating to any such child, with the appropriate authorities of a specified country; |
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| (e)to provide, on request, information of a general character, as to the law of Sri Lanka in connection with the implementation of the Convention in any specified country ; |
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| (f) to institute judicial proceedings with a view to obtaining the return of any such child to the specified country in which that child has his or her habitual residence, and in appropriate cases, to make arrangements for organizing or securing or to institute judicial proceedings for securing, the effective exercise of rights of access to a child who is in Sri Lanka ; |
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| (g) where circumstances so requires to facilitate the provision of legal aid or advice ; |
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| (h) to provide such administrative arrangements as may be necessary and appropriate to secure the safe return of any such child to the specified country in which that child has his or her habitual residence |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts