2. Section 286A of the Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended as follows:-"
| (1) by the renumbering of subsection (2) of that section as subsection (4) of that section; and |
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| (2) by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsections:"
| | "(2) Any person who, being a developer of photographs or films, discovers that any photograph or film given to him for developing is an indecent or obscene photograph or a film of a child, shall, forthwith on such discovery, inform the officer in charge of the nearest police station that he has in his possession, such photograph or film. | | |
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| (3) Whoever being a developer of photographs or films acts in contravention of the provisions of subsection (2) shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts