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| (2) An authorized officer may enter any place in which any woman, young person or child is, or is believed to be, employed, or, as the case may be, in which he or she is, or is believed to be, taking part in an entertainment or performance, or being trained, and may make inquiries therein with respect to him or her. |
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| (3) Any person who obstructs an authorized officer in the exercise of any power conferred on him by this Act, or who refuses to answer or answers falsely any inquiry authorized by this section to be made, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding six months or both such fine and such imprisonment. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts