2. Section. 5 of the Offences Against Public Property Act, No. 12 of 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the " principal enactment") is hereby amended, by the insertion immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsection:
| " (3) Any person who dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property being public property, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen property, shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon conviction be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term not less than one year but not exceeding twenty years and with a fine of one thousand rupees or three times the value of the property in respect of which such offence was committed, whichever amount is higher.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts