11. Section 79 of the principal enactment is the principal hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor : -
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| | (1) Where any person is convicted of an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made there under the court shall order that all or any articles in respect of which the offence was committed and any boat, vessel, vehicle, aircraft or airborne craft or equipment which has been used for the conveyance of such article shall, by reason of such conviction, be forfeited to the State. | | |
| | (2) Any property forfeited to the Stale under subsection (1) shall -
| | | (a) if no appeal has been preferred to the Court of Appeal against the relevant conviction, vest absolutely in the State with effect from the dale on which the period prescribed for preferring an appeal against such conviction expires ; |
| (b) if an appeal has been preferred to the Court of Appeal against the relevant conviction, vest absolutely in the State with effect from the date on which such conviction is affirmed on appeal. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts