Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPrinting, amp c, of Referendum publication
| 48. Every person who prints, publishes, distributes ox posts up, or causes to be printed, published, distributed or posted up, any advertisement, handbill, placard or poster which refers to a Referendum 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 poster, 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 of from some other reasonable cause of a like nature and did not arise from any want of good faith. |