Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

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Offensive weapons Act (No. 18 of 1966) - Sect 3

Damage, &c., to property by use of offensive weapons,

3. Any person who does with any offensive weapon any act or thing-
(a) which causes, whether directly or indirectly, damage or destruction to any movable or immovable property of the Crown, any body of persons whether corporate or unicorporate, or any individual; or
(b) which causes, whether directly or indirectly, any such change in such property as destroys its value or utility,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding twenty years, and also with a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees, and may in addition be punished with whipping.

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