Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsCompetent Authority to make preliminary inquiry on the arrest of any person under this Part of this Act
| 20. Where any person is arrested for an offence under this Part of this Act the Competent Authority shall make a preliminary inquiry into the facts and shall, if the person arrested is not a national of Sri Lanka, assist him in communicating with the nearest appropriate representative of the state of which he is a national. |