Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPresumption
| 23. Where in any prosecution instituted under this Act following the seizure of a foreign fishing boat by an enforcement vessel, the place in which an event is alleged to have taken place is in issue, the place stated in a certified copy of the relevant entry in the logbook or other official record of the enforcement vessel as being the place in which the event took place shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, to be the place in which such event took place. |