17. Any person who-
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(a) owns or has the custody or possession of any cultural property, fails to make an application under section 15, or
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(b) transfers the ownership or custody or possession of any cultural property and fails to notify such transfer to the registering officer, under section 16.
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts