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| (1) Any person who knowingly defaces, marks on, mutilates, or causes damage to any record, manuscript or document deposited in the National Archives or who destroys any public record otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Law or any regulation made thereunder or who contravenes any provision of this Law or any regulation made thereunder shall, on conviction, be liable to rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (2) Any offence under this section shall be triable by a Magistrate's Court notwithstanding the limitation of its ordinary jurisdiction. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts