9. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 35 of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as sections 35A. 35B, 35C of that enactment ;
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| | (1) Any police officer may without orders from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person reasonably suspected of having been concerned in, or connected with, the commission of any offence under this Act, punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding six months if such person refuses to give, his name or address or gives a name or address which he has reason to believe to be false, or if there is reason to believe that such person may abscond. | | |
| | (2) Every police officer making an arrest under this section shall, without unnecessary delay take or send the person arrested to the nearest police station, together with a statement setting out the offence with which the accused is charged. The officer in charge of the police station shall, without unnecessary delay, take or send the person arrested to the nearest Magistrate. | | |
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| 35B. Every police officer shall prevent, and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any offence under this Act. |
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| 35C. Any person who threatens, intimidates or obstructs or otherwise impedes, or in any way interferes with a police officer or any other officer authorized to act in that behalf in the exercise, performance and discharge of his powers, duties and functions under this Act, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine : |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts