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| (1) Every police officer and every expert who conducts any search or inspection or does any other thing in the course of an investigation, shall make every endeavour to ensure that the ordinary course of legitimate business for which an acquirer's point of sales network or automated teller machine network is used, is not hampered by such search, inspection or investigation and shall not seize such acquirer's point of sales network or automated teller machine network or part thereof, if such seizure will prejudice the conduct of the ordinary course of business for which such network is used, unless -
| | (a) it is not possible to conduct the inspection on the premises where such network, or part thereof is located ; or | | |
| | (b) seizure of such network or part thereof is essential to prevent the commission of the offence or the continuance of the offence or to obtain custody of any information which would otherwise be lost, destroyed, modified or rendered inaccessible. | | |
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| (2) A police officer or an expert conducting an investigation under the Act, shall conduct and conclude such investigation as expeditiously as the circumstances of the case permit. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts