Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

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Convention On Preventing And Combating Trafficking In Women And Children For Prostitution Act (No. 30 of 2005) - Sect 5

Rights of certain persons arrested for the offences made under this Act

5. Where a person who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka is arrested for an offence under this Act, such person shall be entitled-
(a) to communicate without delay, with the nearest appropriate representative, of the State of which he is a national or which is otherwise entitled to protect his rights, or if he is stateless person, with the nearest appropriate representative of the state in the territory of which he was habitually resident; and
(b) to be visited by a representative of that State.

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