Database of Legislation

Counterfeiting

  • Offences

      • • Counterfeiting of currency
Obstruction of Justice

  • Sectors

      • • Public officials

  • Offending Involves

      • • Physical force/threat/intimidation
      • promising/ offering/ giving undue advantage

  • In Order To

      • • Interfere with the exercise of official duties by a justice or law enforcement official
      • Induce false testimony
      • Interfere in the giving of testimony or the production of evidence in a proceeding
Participation in an organized criminal group

  • Offences

      • • Agreement to commit a serious crime (conspiracy)
Trafficking in persons

  • Offences

      • • Trafficking in persons (adults)
      • Trafficking in children (under 18 years)

  • Acts Involved

      • • Buying/Purchasing/Selling
      • Organizing and directing other persons
      • Recruitment/Hiring
      • Transportation
      • Transfer
      • Harbouring
      • Receipt

  • Means Used

      • • Threat of the use of force or of other forms of coercion
      • Fraud
      • Deception
      • Abuse of power or a position of vulnerability

  • Exploitative Purposes

      • • Removal of organs
      • Slavery or practices similar to slavery
      • Servitude
      • Forced labour or services
      • Exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation
Falsified medical products
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Sri Lanka

Penal Code

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Highlighted articles

Chapter I   Section 2  

Chapter VA: Of Conspiracy   Section 113A-113B  

Chapter X: Of contemprs of the lawful authority of public servants   Section 183 - 187  

Chapter XI: Of false evidence and offences against public justice   Section 188 - 202  

Chapter XI: Of false evidence and offences against public justice   Section 206 - 224  

Chapter XII: Of Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps   Section 225-256A  

Chapter XIV: Of Offences affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals   Section 267-269  

Chapter XVI: Of Offences Affecting the Human Body   Section 360C   OF KIDNAPPING, ABDUCTION, SLAVERY, ETC.  

 

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Article 5: Criminalization of participation in an organized criminal group
  • Article 15: Jurisdiction
  • Article 23: Criminalization of obstruction of justice

  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Any Article

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Cross-Cutting Issues

    • Jurisdiction

        • • Principle of territoriality (offences committed upon one state’s territory, even if the offender is a foreign citizen)
        • On board a ship/vessel flying its flag
        • On board an aircraft registered under its laws
        • Active principle of nationality (offence committed outside its territory by its nationals)
     

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