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| | (b) aids or abets any person or persons in the commission of an offence under this Law shall be guilty of an offence under this Law ;
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| | (c) attempts to commit any offence tinder this Law shall be guilty of an offence under this Law.
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| (2) Every person who commits an offence under this Law shall, on conviction after trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (3) Where any offence is committed by a body corporate, every individual who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of that offence as he ought to have exercised in the circumstances having regard to the nature of the offence. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts