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| (1) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Law or regulation made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence under this Law. |
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| (2) Every person who commits an offence under this Law shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description, for a period not exceeding six months or to a fine not Exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (3) Where an offence under this Law is committed by a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of such body of persons, and where such body of persons is a firm, every partner of that firm shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of such offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of. his functions and in all the circumstances. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts