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| (1) Where any person is convicted of an offence under sections 3, 4 or 5 of this Act, the Court shall make order that any ship, motor vehicle or mode of conveyance or property, used in, or in connection with, the commission of such offence, be forfeited to the Stale, unless the owner of such ship, motor vehicle or mode of conveyance or property or the person legally entitled to the possession thereof, establishes to the satisfaction of court, that such ship, motor vehicle, or mode of conveyance or property was used in or in connection with the commission of such offence without his knowledge or connivance. |
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| (2)Any ship, motor vehicle or mode of conveyance or property forfeited by an order made under subsection (1), shall vest absolutely in the State. Such vesting shall take effect
| | (a)where no appeal has been made to the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court within the period allowed therefor, after the expiration of the period within which an appeal may be preferred to the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court, as the case may be, against the order of forfeiture ; or | | |
| | (b)where an appeal has been preferred to the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court as the case may be, against the order of forfeiture, upon the final determination of such appeal affirming or upholding the order of forfeiture. | | |
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| (3)Where any ship, motor vehicle or mode of conveyance or properly is vested in the State by an order made under subsection (1), the Court shall cause such ship, motor vehicle or mode of conveyance or property to be sold by public auction and the proceeds of safe credited to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts