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| (1) Any person may, by a communication in writing signed by him and addressed to an appropriate authority, draw the attention of such authority to any recent acquisitions of wealth or property or to any recent financial or business dealings or to any recent expenditures by any person to whom this Law applies, which to the knowledge of the person making such communication is not commensurate with the known sources of wealth and income of such person to whom this Law applies. |
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| (2) Upon receipt of a written communication under subsection (1), the appropriate authority, if he is satisfied that such communication is genuine and. that the communication discloses material upon which an investigation ought to be made, shall make such investigation as may be necessary for the purpose of deciding upon all or, any of the) following matters :
| | (a) prosecution or other suitable action under the provisions of the Bribery Act or the law relating to Exchange Control or Inland Revenue ; or | | |
| | (b) prosecution under this or any other law, and where such appropriate authority finds that a written communication received by him should be dealt with by any other appropriate authority, he may forward such communication to such other authority. | | |
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| (3) Any appropriate authority, upon deciding to investigate the material in any communication received under this section, may call for and examine the declaration of assets and Liabilities made under this Law, and may summon and question or cause to be summoned and questioned the person making the communication and shall cause investigations to be made and concluded as expeditiously as possible and in any case before the lapse of a period of six months from the date of the receipt of such written communication. |
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| (4) Save as provided in subsection (1), it shall be an offence for any person to make a public statement concerning a person to whom this Law applies alleging that such person has made recent acquisitions of wealth or property, or recent, financial or business dealings, or Incurred recent expenditures not commensurate with the known sources of wealth and income of such person, or to make any such public statement in respect of any investigation being made by an appropriate authority upon a written communication made by him under the provisions of subsection (1), |
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| (5) Any person who commits an offence under the provisions of subsection (4) shall, upon conviction after trial by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding on thousand rupees or to a term of imprisonment of either description not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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| (6) In this section, " appropriate authority" shall mean the Attorney-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions. the Bribery Commissioner, the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, the Head of the Department of Exchange Control and the Principal Collector of Customs. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts