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| (1) The Minister may, where he considers it appropriate and subject to the provisions of subsection (3), issue a warrant authorizing the transfer out of Sri Lanka to a specified country of any offender. |
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| (2) The warrant to be issued under subsection (1) shall be in the prescribed form under the hand of the Minister. |
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| (3) The Minister shall not issue a warrant under subsection (1) unless he is satisfied that all reasonable step have been taken to inform the offender being transferred in writing, in his own language, of the effect and consequence of such transfer in relation to such offender. |
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| (4) The Minister shall on the date of issuing of a warrant under subsection (1) cause a copy there of to be served on the commissioner of prisons. |
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| (5) A warrant issued under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be sufficient authority for the commissioner of prisons to deliver or cause the delivery of such offender to any person authorized to receive such offender and to keep him in custody and hand him into the custody of a person duly authorized by the appropriate authority of a specified country, to take the custody of such offender. |
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