Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPrinting &c. of election publications by persons
| 72. Every person who, not being a candidate, prints, publishes distributes or posts up, or causes to be printed, published distributed or posted up, any advertisement , handbill, placard or poster which refers to an election and which does not bear upon its face the names and addresses of its printer and publisher, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction by a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees : Provided, however, that a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the preceding provisions of this section, in relation to any advertisement, handbill, placard or posters if he satisfies the Magistrate that the omission of the aforesaid names and addresses or any such name or address, as the case may be, arose from inadvertence or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature and did not arise from any want of good faith. |