5. Section 22 of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows: -
| (a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) thereof; and |
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| (b) by the addition, immediately after renumbered sub-section (1) of that section, of the following new sub-sections: -
| | " (2) No person shall cause damage to, or deface, or in any way alter or change the character of, any identity card, or make any unauthorized duplicate of such card. | | |
| | (3) Any transferor or transferee, assignor or assignee of an identity card under subsection (1), or any person who has damaged or defaced or in any way altered or changed the character thereof, or made any unauthorized duplicate thereof, under subsection (2), shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a term of not less than three months but not more than one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts