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Immigrants and Emigrants (Amendment) Act (No. 31 of 2006) - Sect 3

Insertion of new section 45C in the principal enactment

3. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 45B of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 45C of that enactment :-
45C.
(1) Any person, who-
(a) organizes one or more persons to leave Sri Lanka in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act ; or
(b) attempts or does any act preparatory to, or aids and abets any other person to, so organize under paragraph (a),
(2) Any person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall, upon conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not less than one year and not more than five years.
(3) In this section, the expression "organize", with its grammatical variations, includes-
(a) the recruitment of a person on a promise of securing employment outside Sri Lanka ;
(b) knowingly making false promises of employment in a foreign country or making any false representation or disseminating misleading information with the intention of inducing persons to leave Sri Lanka for foreign employment ;
(c) soliciting pecuniary benefits from persons whether or not any such benefit was realized ;
(d) the transportation of persons by sea, land or any other manner without obtaining valid travel documents ;
(e) receiving and harbouring persons whether in Sri Lanka or in a foreign country.".


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